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Originally Posted by Twickers
Hi everyone. I hope you are all enjoying your new X3's. I recently took delivery of a UK spec M40i and although I am really enjoying it, I am getting some really annoying vibrations from the steering wheel. This seems to happen on pretty much all road surfaces (bearing in mind some UK roads are really bad). The car currently has 20" Pirelli P Zeros run-flat tyres.
My local BMW dealer has had the car in and they have concluded that the vibrations felt on the steering wheel are considered in keeping with a car that has a suspension that is performance biased. I find that a little surprising as I don't remember the steering feeling like that for the first few 300-ish miles and I have also driven many performance biased SUV's (F-Pace, Macan, RR Sport) and have never felt it to that extent before. I have also driven a M140i which didn't seem to vibrate as much either. I do expect some vibration, especially whilst idling but not to that extent when on the road. Obviously it's good to have some road surface feedback but this seems excessive. I wondered if anyone has had any similar experiences with that model in particular? I did hit a pot-hole quite badly a while back and wondered if perhaps it had created an alignment issue but I believe BMW did check that. I wonder if switching to 19" wheels, possibly even to non run-flats might help alleviate the problem? I would be very interested to hear from anyone who might be bale to share some insight.
Many thanks for any help.
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Here's your problem:
I did hit a pot-hole quite badly a while back and wondered if perhaps it had created an alignment issue but I believe BMW did check that.
Not an alignment issue, but perhaps a bent wheel or out of balance wheel (wheel weight feel off). Does the vibration occur at all speeds or at a higher specific speed range?