XC 90 Vibration at 50mph

[marky4]

I have a 2016 XC90 Inscription on air suspension which has developed a vibration at 50 mph . I had 2 new tyres fitted on the front last year could it be a wheel balance or something more expensive ?

[weemark]

Originally Posted by marky4

I have a 2016 XC90 Inscription on air suspension which has developed a vibration at 50 mph . I had 2 new tyres fitted on the front last year could it be a wheel balance or something more expensive ?

I'd certainly be checking the tyres/wheels first - have you lost one of the weights? get em checked/balanced at a tyre place and see whether that makes a difference first before worrying about anything else

[marky4]

Thanks , that's what i was hoping someone would suggest rather than an expensive known fault. I will get them balanced

[Raddish]

Could be quite simply that you’ve lost wheel weights in the cold and bad weather, it’s the simplest and cheapest first line of investigation

[met24]

Haha. Currently sat in the waiting room getting the balance checked on my car after meeting a pothole the other day. Tyres look okay but why oh why are we obsessed with zero-profile tyres these days?

Fingers crossed (for you and me!) that it is just balancing.

[nu11eaf]

If you use a pressure washer to clean the wheels it is easy to dislodge a balance weight, ask me how I know.

[Kingston1]

Originally Posted by marky4

I have a 2016 XC90 Inscription on air suspension which has developed a vibration at 50 mph . I had 2 new tyres fitted on the front last year could it be a wheel balance or something more expensive ?

I too developed a vibration on the steering wheel at 50mph - I thought it would just be the wheels out of balance and it was. It only cost £12 for both at my local tyre station and it cured it immediately. I hope yours is something as straightforward.

[Philip Fisher]

Originally Posted by nu11eaf

If you use a pressure washer to clean the wheels it is easy to dislodge a balance weight, ask me how I know.

How do you know?

[marky4]

Well i`ve just had the front wheels balanced but the vibration is still there 50mph and on it gets worse , pretty worried now

[met24]

Unfortunately I need a new wheel after my incident with the pothole. It's no longer perfectly round (never a good sign for a wheel ...) and made the balancing machine wobble quite impressively. Slightly tempted to keep the old wheel and make a coffee table out of it - the doink was inboard.

I briefly thought about replacing all four wheels with ones an inch smaller for a bit more sidewall but decided an extra centimetre-and-a-bit wasn't really worth buying 4 new wheels and tyres.

Do you remember anything happening before you started getting the vibration?

Any reason why you just got the front wheels balanced? I figured that seeing as the car was going to be up on the lift I might as well get them to do all four. (Thumbs up to ATS Euromaster in Bletchley, by the way, for fitting me in the same day I rang.)