Steering Wheel Vibration

[etr2016]

I noticed some decent vibration in the steering wheel of my 1m at speeds between 80-130mph. It seems somewhat random from what I can tell and the road was pretty smooth (love these open AZ highways). The car has 14k miles, and the front tires are the original PS2's and the rears are Super Sports (previous owner needed new rears and dealer recommended SS's). Anyway, I think it's a bad balancing job and I was actually going to get new Super Sports around, but does anyone have any other thought on what it could be? Alignment?

[nachob]

Originally Posted by etr2016

I noticed some decent vibration in the steering wheel of my 1m at speeds between 80-130mph. It seems somewhat random from what I can tell and the road was pretty smooth (love these open AZ highways). The car has 14k miles, and the front tires are the original PS2's and the rears are Super Sports (previous owner needed new rears and dealer recommended SS's). Anyway, I think it's a bad balancing job and I was actually going to get new Super Sports around, but does anyone have any other thought on what it could be? Alignment?

5 years and 14k miles. No brainier, rebalance front. I had same issue and too care of it for about a year and 6 k. Another issue is with cars that sit, the brakes collect "park rot" and this also can cause some of this. If you read the manual it says to periodically use heavy braking. My car sat all winter and eventually for front rotors replaced but re-balance is cheap! Good kick

[Tinsta]

Yep, echo the above comments, also check your tyre pressures, and wheel bolts are torqued correctly too.

[sl00se]

I had the same issue last month. Re balance the fronts fixed it!

[etr2016]

Thanks guys! One thing I forgot to do was check the tire pressure, but will get the rebalance too.

[ayao]

There's also a chance a wheel is bent. You'd think it'd be obvious on balancing but I had an experience in which it took several trips to the wheel shop for multiple failed balances until they noticed the wheel was out of round.

[-Z-]

Where do you guys go for rebalancing?

[etr2016]

I needed new tires anyway, so between the tire re-balancing, and alignment (which the dealer said is done every time you change the tires - even though my car has 14k on it) fixed the problem. My local BMW dealer is really good and cuts me some deals.