Volks Cafe in Santa Cruz has some Mercedes wheels made for the Vanagon
equiped with Agilis 51 tires and everything you need to put them on all for
1000 dollars. The tires are 205 65 R 15 C rated at 1875 for single tire. The
wheels are made in Italy.

Personally though, I saw a Synchro with these wheels on after seeing them in
the show room, and I don't really care for them on the Vanagon. Just my
opinion though. Think I'd rather have the Rhein wheels. (the syncho  had
different tires on, bigger and meatier).

>From: Brian Cirulnick <techrat@VM.COM>
>Reply-To: Brian Cirulnick <techrat@VM.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Mercedes Rims -- 112mm 5bolt pattern?
>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:55:21 -0500
>
>Howdy List!
>
>I'm tired of my standard 14inch steel rims with their tinker-toy 185R14
>tires. On a whim last night, I realised after some e-bay surfing that
>Mercedes rims could be had used for less than used Vanagon rims. Now many
>Mercedes(s) use a 15 or 16 inch rim with a 112mm 5 bolt pattern. Plus, the
>Mercedes, being a heavy car, probably forges the alloy rim to take a great
>deal of weight, so it's probably OK for a Vanagon.
>
>Now, if I go trashing through junkyards for some rims, is there anything I
>should be aware of? Would just about any Mercedes rim fit the Vanagon,
>provided they are 112mm 5bolt? Do I have to drill out the center hole like
>with Audi rims, or add spacers (2 wheel drive '85 Vanagon GL), or do
>anything other than just get tires and mount them?
>
>I want to keep the job simple and (fairly) cheap. I don't want to spend
>more
>than $600 for 4 rims and tires AND, I want to have at least 6inch wide
>tires, but I'd prefer 7inch. Am I talking pure fantasy for 15 by 7 inch
>rims
>with the biggest tires I have clearence for?
>
>Help me Obi-Wan...
>
>(Oh, and if anybody's been following my exploits -- thanks for the info
>regarding the square versus round headlights -- I've been convinced to keep
>the rounds since apparently, I can get much brighter lights for the old
>7inch rounds)
>
>TTYL
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    E-mail: techrat@vm.com                 URL: http://www.vm.com/
>      http://www.obsolyte.com  --  where the antique is elYte!!

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com