I have not cornered my 115 hard enough to really test the adhesion of the wheel covers but I have to say that the Mercedes wheelcovers do have what appears to be a good method of holding them onto the wheel. I had the car safetied before I bought it and my brother in law was the mechanic who did it for me. I specifically recall his commenting that I was not likely to lose any of the wheelcovers when he was reinstalling them after looking at the brakes.
Randy B -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zoltan Finks Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:30 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] 300D Bundtcake Rims Me too! Surprised to hear myself say that as I've always loved aluminum wheels - unsprung weight and all that. I just like the character the steels and caps give (or as wife calls it "cute"). Here's a question I've had: Has anyone seen or heard of the wheelcovers popping off a Mercedes under hard cornering? I know that this happens on a lot of cars, and it's why police cars would always have "hubcaps" (just covering the middle of the wheel), rather than "wheel covers" which cover the whole diameter, attaching to the outer lip of wheel (and thus are succeptible to popping off under wheel flex). I know on that old TV commercial that was posted to the list some time ago, that orange 300D was cornering at the limits of its capability, and the wheel covers stayed on. Unless I'm forgetting and it had bundts. Or unless they sneakily adhered them to the wheels in preparation for the handling demonstration. Brian 83 240D On 4/5/06, Loren Faeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally I prefer steel wheels and > hubcaps. >
