Snow Packed Rims = Wobbly Wheel

[Lawrence C Leung]

Yes. Had that problem today with my winter Ronals. Mostly a problem with
the Ronal and BBS mesh style wheels. The smoother disk style wheels seem
less prone to this problem, and steels (by virtue of being featurless)
seem the least effected of all. Generally means, if it vibrates, clean
the wheels. 

LL - NY

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:59:05 -0500 "Alexander van Gerbig"
<Audi_80 at email.msn.com> writes:
>    Pulled out to do some errands today in the 200q20v and noticed 
>nothing
>odd on the snow covered road leading to the main road.  The main road 
>was
>snow free and once I got to 50mph to steering wheel started to shake
>violently.  Well something must have gotten out of alignment when 
>driving in
>heavy snow, but no.  As I walked out of the store I thought maybe the 
>snow
>packed in the mesh rims was causing the wheels to act unbalanced.  I 
>cleaned
>them all out with my finger and bingo, no wobble.  Anyone else ever
>experienced this?
>
>Happy New Years!
>
>Alexander van Gerbig -- '88 80
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