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
Yes. I once drove my Jetta through about 50 miles of snow and the ride got progressively worse. It got to the point that one of the wheels shook to the point where it felt like it was going to literally rip itself off the car it was shaking so bad. The problem was dry snow caked onto the inside of the BBS alloys. I used hot water at a gas station to melt the snow and the ride once became smooth as normal.