Any more side shots? Love your old wheels!
NEW 22x10.5" deep dish wheels mounted
Sorry about the picture quality, I have 5 megapixels shots that seem to have distorted a bit when resized down to 25%.
Also, I'll be swapping out the front spacers installed in these pics to bring the front wheels in by 5mm.
I hope you guys like the set-up, but more importantly I hope this inspires some of you to add some nice plus sized wheels to your MLs. I'd love to see more personalized W163s!!
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Old 22" OZ wheels:
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Snow-tire set-up on black OEM AMG 18":
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Also, I'll be swapping out the front spacers installed in these pics to bring the front wheels in by 5mm.
I hope you guys like the set-up, but more importantly I hope this inspires some of you to add some nice plus sized wheels to your MLs. I'd love to see more personalized W163s!!
Old 22" OZ wheels:
Snow-tire set-up on black OEM AMG 18":
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Really nice set up. I bet you could use some nice chrome tips. 
or maybe they are chrome... I can't tell from the shot.
or maybe they are chrome... I can't tell from the shot.
Actually, I don't find the ride that bad. I drive with 1 hand most of the time and never fly out of the seat.
Then again, I'm used to lowered suspensions and low profile tires in all of my cars.
At the moment the fronts don't necessarily stick out. However, since the front bumper tapers in towards the center line, there's so much tire exposed that they appear to stick out relative to the rears. Essentially I'm trying to make sure that the whole package looks matched and conceptually I'm going for "OEM Special Edition" rather than "Aftermarket". It's really hardly noticeable but I'm so damn picky that I like to cause myself grief.
Next up for the black beast is new torsion bar bushings and some exhaust modifications.
& THANKS for the kind words fellas! :thumbsup:
I think that you, CAHEK and the other fella in MBWorld who researched this subject extremely thoroughly should get together and write a book on lowering the ML via the B'Stein/H&R way. It will be very informative. In fact, if you guys don't have time, I will do it (I have been collecting the various posts as well as I can!!) because a whole bunch of us, myself included, have no idea how to properly do this, mostly due to misinformation or conflicting info. What I have learned is that to have the right balance, it's not plug-&-play like the manufacturers seem to make it sound.At the moment the fronts don't necessarily stick out. However, since the front bumper tapers in towards the center line, there's so much tire exposed that they appear to stick out relative to the rears. Essentially I'm trying to make sure that the whole package looks matched and conceptually I'm going for "OEM Special Edition" rather than "Aftermarket". It's really hardly noticeable but I'm so damn picky that I like to cause myself grief.
Next up for the black beast is new torsion bar bushings and some exhaust modifications.
& THANKS for the kind words fellas! :thumbsup:
Here's my pledge to contribute: if anyone has anything to contribute to this W163 lowering experience, e-mail or PM me - I don't want nude pics of squating females (or males for that matter), please. Sometime by the end of the year, we will come up with a comprehensive write-up. I have no idea who "we" is, but it's going to happen.
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