Possible buckled wheel???!

[Flash]

Hi guys,

I was driving my W203 and the wife was following me behind in the W209 Cabriolet and noticed that whilst I was driving that the W203 off side rear wheel appeared to be "bowed" as it was turning as she described it.

The tyre was replaced in March 2009 by a Mercedes Dealership and to my knowledge the alloy wheel has not had any knocks what so ever and is in immaculate condition.

Assuming that the alloy wheel is not buckled then what in your opinion could be casuing the wheel to appear as if it is buckled or bowed when it is rotating as the car is being driven?

I know that if the wheel was buckled/bowed then I would easily be able to identify this from when then wheel is being balanced on the hi tech machine by the fitter.

Amy suggestuions guys?

 

[AndyPCD]

The first thing i would do is get the wheel checked by a tyre centre as they can spin the wheel up on there wheel balancing machine and then you can visually check to see if the wheel is buckled.

I have seen this happen before and it is just a marking on the road i.e dirt and when it is spinning it makes the wheel look like it is buckled.

Does the car feel like any of the wheels are buckled i.e vibration when driving.

If all this comes back ok i would then get the suspension checked

 

[jaymanek]

Wheels normally buckle on the inner not outer.. I doubt you could see a buckled wheel whilst on the car.. If you could the whole car would be vibrating like mad...

Id get it checked but more than likely an optical illusion with all the dirt that must have accumulated on the wheels.

 

[Flash]

Suspension was cheked out by dealeership from the last service which was a few months ago and all was fine at the time.

Tracking was done again and needed hardly any adjusting as I hit a nasty pot hole earlier during the year and that was before the suspension was checked over at the service.

I hope that it is just dirt then on the tyre/road but the car had been valted a few days before and was very clean.

I can't feel any obvious vibrations out of the ordinary but I was paranoid that I had lost the magic carpet ride of the car (which has factory sports suspension fitted) as I had been busy driving the CL and CLK and not the W203 for a long period of time hence me having the suspension/tyres/wheel balancing carried out on the car and new tyres fitted soon after as the original tyres were worn.