2011 E550 Steering wheel Vibration
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Great observation! You are 100% correct. The only real bad things about luxury cars with all wheel drive is the fact that the ride is not as glassy smooth as it should be on a luxury car.
The car that comes to mind is the Lexus GS350 AWD. Tons of people on the ClubLexus forum have jumped ship because they can't take the vibrations that it ripples thru the cabin. This is a combination of the Idemitsu(I believe) design and Lexus drivers being spoiled with perfect smooth ride.
For the people who have the 4matic, pay close attention to your steering when you first start driving the car cold. Between 30-40mph there will be a subtle vibration that is caused by the differential whirring cold.
K-A great observation!
The car that comes to mind is the Lexus GS350 AWD. Tons of people on the ClubLexus forum have jumped ship because they can't take the vibrations that it ripples thru the cabin. This is a combination of the Idemitsu(I believe) design and Lexus drivers being spoiled with perfect smooth ride.
For the people who have the 4matic, pay close attention to your steering when you first start driving the car cold. Between 30-40mph there will be a subtle vibration that is caused by the differential whirring cold.
K-A great observation!
That's too bad, but I guess everything has its trade offs. I'm sure at some point, they'll engineer it to have that lack of extra vibration.
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I have driven GS350 RWD, no vibration and car was really smooth from 0 to 70. I had only one AWD car expereince, it was A6 and I really didn't like stability at highway speed, too much attention to steering, perhaps you can use to, but after RWD I had feel really tensed.
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E350 4matic
The car that comes to mind is the Lexus GS350 AWD. Tons of people on the ClubLexus forum have jumped ship because they can't take the vibrations that it ripples thru the cabin. This is a combination of the Idemitsu(I believe) design and Lexus drivers being spoiled with perfect smooth ride.
The E350 is an order of magnitude quieter than the Lexus was. I have no regrets.
