Re: tire advice
I'm out of town right now, so I couldn't tell you exactly what I paid, but I think it was around $750 total. Of course I have the smaller 17" wheels on my SLK. I figured the slight higher cost would be recovered with the 40k warrantee. I told the guy "see you in 20k" and laughed...
BTW, I also ran a set of Fuzion zRi tires... got about 17k out of them... if you want to count the lat 3k when they were almost slicks...
Let's plan for an AMG factory visit in the spring!