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Wondering if anyone could offer up some advice on this?
I've got a 2015 F30 330d Msport Xdrive and it's been vibrating for a while now. Used to be very bad as the front near side wheel was buckled but I've got a brand new alloy on it and all four wheels are now true and fully balanced to zero by a trusted tyre specialist who I watched do them all and he's balanced my other cars perfectly. Tyres are all brand new.
The vibrations start around 65mph but you really feel it at 80mph. It's a very slight vibration but fast oscillations if that makes sense. It does it in both drive and neutral and you can feel it in the steering wheel and seat.
Any thoughts what could be causing this?
I've got a 2015 F30 330d Msport Xdrive and it's been vibrating for a while now. Used to be very bad as the front near side wheel was buckled but I've got a brand new alloy on it and all four wheels are now true and fully balanced to zero by a trusted tyre specialist who I watched do them all and he's balanced my other cars perfectly. Tyres are all brand new.
The vibrations start around 65mph but you really feel it at 80mph. It's a very slight vibration but fast oscillations if that makes sense. It does it in both drive and neutral and you can feel it in the steering wheel and seat.
Any thoughts what could be causing this?
From my experience of an F30 320d and then an F32 430d, initially both were perfect until I needed new tyres - then I had all sorts of problems with vibrations exactly like yours, on both cars.
For reasons unknown, they seem to be very, very sensitive to wheel balancing (never had a problem on E91/92 or E93) such that on my last tyre stop (for 4 new tyres), it went back 4 times until they got it right.
No idea why they seem to be so sensitive, but the problem was eventually sorted out. I wondered for a while if it was the tyres themselves, but it did turn out to be balancing on both cars.
For reasons unknown, they seem to be very, very sensitive to wheel balancing (never had a problem on E91/92 or E93) such that on my last tyre stop (for 4 new tyres), it went back 4 times until they got it right.
No idea why they seem to be so sensitive, but the problem was eventually sorted out. I wondered for a while if it was the tyres themselves, but it did turn out to be balancing on both cars.
It's worth getting the wheels road force balanced. Some tyres are just badly made, but a good tech will rotate the wheel inside the tyre to find the best spot, and put the two worst wheels on the rear of the car.
It's all very boring, but some cars are more susceptible to this than others.
I have used this lot and they are excellent:
http://www.birminghammotortyre.co.uk/balancing.htm...
It's all very boring, but some cars are more susceptible to this than others.
I have used this lot and they are excellent:
http://www.birminghammotortyre.co.uk/balancing.htm...
Edited by apotts on Wednesday 9th November 19:11
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