Does the vibration vary with road surface ? My XF suspension was too hard and transmitted road imperfections into the steering wheel and vehicle as a whole, I fixed it by replacing the shocks and springs with softer ones (I want a comfortable car rather than a track car).

 

They picked up my car a few minutes ago for the steering wheel vibration. They were a bit late, so I jacked up the car and found every rim had some run-out. Anywhere from .0625 - .125 inches. I then jacked up my 2000 spyder for reference and every rim ran true. I showed the guy who picked it up how the spyder's rims, (both front tires) had no run-out whatsoever even after 14 years. Then I showed him both front tires on the xf and how bad they ran-out. I am not sure if that is the problem or not. But I sure am hoping it comes back with no vibration this time.
It has a squeaky drivers seat too, BTW.

 

Sad news. I just followed up with a call after the car left. They stated that the rims could not have had any run-out when they balanced the tires last time. I informed the steering has been vibrating since I bought the car. I told them they informed me it was flat spots when I bought it. Then they brought it back in shortly thereafter for the vibration and road balanced and rotated the tires which made it better, but not fixed. Then they rotated the tires back to there original location at service time which brought it all back again. They state they want over $100 a tire to fix this. Very disappointing. When I told them my 14 year old MR2 Spyder rims have no run-out, they stated the jaguar rims are soft rims and they do see them come in for run-out from time to time. How can such a nice car be so fatiguing to drive all the time?
Does Jaguar make any hard rims, or all they all soft? I have the 19" Aquila rims.

 

I have the 20" Nevis and they are like butter bro. I have already bent three of them. One I think is very slightly bent but I am living with it because I think they were able to balance it out.

Our area is under a ton of construction right now too so I take my wheels' lives into my hands every time I am driving...constant pot holes, road cracks, etc. I think it's the nature of the beast with OEM Jag rims

 

I got a call. The rims are ok, the tires are out of round.

 

soft rims?

when someone comes up with hokum like that, ask them what number is acceptable and what number they have for your rims. if they have a number, then ask them on what measurement scale, and to what industry standard ... in writing.

in any case, the answer is they supplied both wheels and tires ... so fix it ... don't care how.

 

No luck in getting any compensation from the tire manufacturer. I am having a set of real tires sent there now: 245/40ZR-19 BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 XL
I was looking forward to getting these put on anyhow, I just didn't think I'd be doing it at half tread.

 

The new tires fixed the vibration. The alignment was off a bit too, but they fixed that.
They also removed the seat and retightened the bolts. If it starts squeaking again, I'll do the same except this time use Loctite.

 

Glad you got your issues taken care of. You will really love the car now.