balance

I have just taken the wheels off my SL and given each a proper wash. One thing struck me as very odd. None of the wheels has any balance weights attached. I had the wheels refurbished last year by my local MB and that's the way they've come back. I've had no vibration or judder at any speed (...

I noticed a worrying thing today. For some reason when in park or neutral, if the engine is reved to 1400ishRPM with no load on it, there is a shuddering vibration/out of balance feeling, not great but I can notice it. In every other type of driving the car is fine and good, full acceleration...

The roof on my W208 doesn't retract unless I 'hold up' the front portion so that it can bend. And when closing it now bangs against the header rail rather than holding off a few cm's. I looked under the internal lining and found a steel cable adrift, the cable has parted company with the...

I've had four new tyres fitted recently at my local tyre shop, he gave me an extremely good rate for Continental Sport Contact2's however it would appear that their "standard" wheel balancing machine is just not good enough for a W140 S class. I drove away and immediately noticed the steering...

I have been reading the several threads about lacquer damage and the fact that MB now replace with new wheels. My car is 3 weeks old and the wheels are all fine but I have noticed that the tyre balance weights are fitted to the outside of the rim. When the wheels need re balancing or new...

Been fighting with wifes car for last 10,000 miles with wheel balance going out after few miles. ended up putting the wheel on the back in the end. Had 4 new tyres put on yesterday, only to get the tyre fitted on the phone to say they had found a flat 6" long geko in the rear tyre...