i have snow and ice packed into my stock 17"s and if i go above 50mph the car shakes like crazy... can this damage my car?

anyone know of any good way to get the ice and packed snow out of your rims when the warmest it gets is 6 deg?

i ran it though a "heated" car wash and it only put a lovely protective ice coating on the snow....

 

I had that shaking a couple winters ago. Scared the bejesus out of me. I thought the front wheel was coming off. I pulled off the highway and knocked the ice and snow out, problem solved.

If it's that cold, you'll have to carefully chip it out, or get a hair dryer to melt it.

 

It may cause an imbalance in the tires which you will need to have checked once the weather breaks.

 

just take the brush end of an ice scraper and use that to knock the ice out....since the inside of the wheel is smooth, the ice does not grip it well, and will pop out easily if you knock it a few times through the openings in the wheel spokes....alternatively PUT ON SOME GLOVES and stick your hand in there (I had to do this today, since I didn't have my scraper handy)....oh and it was 11 degrees here today...

 

You mean imbalance while the snow/ice is still on the rim, right? Everything should be ok after the snow has been removed.

 

I would think that if the car were driven very long with a build-up of snow/ice in the wheel, it could knock the overall balancing of the tire off. I may be wrong in that assumption, but it seems fairly possible.

 

hmmm....probably not...though the temporary imbalance caused by the snow and ice could conceivably break wheel lugs or work lug nuts loose....

 

Absolutely. It can do a couple of things including knock off some of the weights used to balance the wheel and put the belts inside of the tire out of alignment, both things that will cause problems long after the snow is gone. Both are rare, but can happen.

 

I live in the snowy climate ,just bring it to a spray carwash and rinse the rims off yourself. I drive in deep snow at times had car 2 1/2 years and have had know problem with the balance of the wheels after been snow packed.

Burton

 

holy sh*t... glad im not up north any mo'

 

Also I notice something to, I was a t work saturday before we got licked with all that snow. I noticed when I was leaving work, my brakes were working like crap!!, Not sure if this is because of the snow going in the rims onto the calipers? After awhile it went away though. Assuming once the brakes warmed up.

 

Ya, it was most likely caused by the snow built up inside the wheel because it packs in around the caliper and rotor. I've never had this trouble with my car, but get it all the time with my plow truck.

 

Park in a heated garage for a while. I'm sure you can find a heated parkade and pay the couple of bucks for a few hours. As mentioned above a wand wash would also work.

 

Put Winter Rims And Tires On You Momo!

 

i did bring it through a car wash and it made it worse, there are no do it yourself car washes in my area anymore... they last one we had was torn down last year and replaced with a fully automated one...

i took care of it by getting the car into my friends heated garage.

 

brain storm:

get it in a garage, take the damn rims off and melt the snow and ice off?

We are all in the same boat, if weather persists much longer (past next week) i'd do this, otherwise just hang on and it'll definatly melt off.