E Class vibration, alloy wheel?

[PLuKE]

I have a slight vibration through the car, rather faint, but now I feel it, its hard to ignore!

The car is a W213 E Class, on 20" OEM wheels on RFT.

Had all the wheels rebalanced, the front drivers side turned out to have a very slight flat spot in, and a poorly worn tyre, the inner most edge has worn a groove in the thread.

They rebalanced the wheel, 105g of weight added.

The vibration is not really felt, and road surface dependent now, but would a front wheel that's not perfect transmit a vibration through the floor/seat of the car?

Many thanks

[Pericoloso]

If the wheel and or tyre are not quite right ,then balancing and adding 105g was a bit pointless.

Replace wheel and or tyre and see how that goes.

[PLuKE]

I am in the process of this, the car was only bought a few weeks ago, Mercedes Used Approved.

The wheel was refurbed, the other 3 are new replacements. So this is a problem they should of seen/checked.

My main question is would a front wheel/tyre cause a vibration through the floor/seat. My understanding is, floor/seat vibration is from the rear, front wheel/tyre problem would feel the steering wobble/shake.

Thanks

[9xxNick]

I've had similar problems caused by balancing issues. 100+ grammes is a lot to add to a wheel to balance it - I'd be looking for the dealer to work harder to find a fix. My recent experience of franchised dealers argues that they can be very poor at balancing wheels and also that it's often difficult to tell which end of the car's causing the vibration.

[ninjag]

Probably a good idea to get all four wheels/tyres road force balanced. I was amazed to be told that our lovely potholes are distorting tyres and causing many a vibration issue.

[sgtBerbatov]

9xxNick said:

I've had similar problems caused by balancing issues. 100+ grammes is a lot to add to a wheel to balance it - I'd be looking for the dealer to work harder to find a fix. My recent experience of franchised dealers argues that they can be very poor at balancing wheels and also that it's often difficult to tell which end of the car's causing the vibration.

In my experience, unless you are standing within eye shot of the balancing machine and you notice that it isn't 0g/0g then the fitter won't bother getting it to that point. Don't let them fob you off with the whole "you're allowed 5g tollerance", it's rubbish. The moment you go over 60mph that wheel is going to shake more than Rolf Harris on his first day in prison.

[ninjag]

Also a lot of the balancing machines need to have the cover pulled over before they will work making it harder to see.