Originally Posted by mdaniels4
Yesterday we had a pretty big snowfall, more than 4-5 inches. Very icy etc. The car ran fine the day before yesterday. This morning going to work I experienced very heavy front end shake-not merely shimmy, but shake. This afternoon coming home, to be honest it scared me going over 60 it was so bad. I checked the wheels and there was quite a bit of ice build up inside the wheels, on that shelf of the wheel behind the spokes. I cleaned it off, and will test drive it later, but do y'all think it would be enough to throw off the wheel balance enough to cause such a shake? It was bad. The ice was built up not evenly around the wheel so I'm thinking that might be the issue. Anybody else ever experience this type of thing? I didn't hit anything, just very big snow ruts, that did not forcefully do anything, but I suppose could have popped a wheel weight or pushed the alignment out bad enough. Thoughts would be appreciated. Mark
Yeah, very likely the ice.
Curiously, I washed mine the other day. It was warm when I started but cold by the end of doing Cathy's and mine. The next morning as I drove to work, the front end was vibrating. I stopped for fuel and checked. There was a small layer of ice where water had settled inside the "shelf" on the left front wheel.
Poured some QT special blend coffee on it and the vibration was gone.
Next time I do Cathy's last.
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