General S'no Problem

[Bravo Lima]

G'day. I wondered what had happened to the Bravo when I took it out in freezing conditions. Vibration from the steering wheel indicated at the very least a balance weight lost from the nearside wheel. At 50 mph it was slightly scary. I continued at 30 mph to journey's end where the problem became clear. I had driven into deep snow the night before, this had frozen into the multi-spoke alloy wheel causing wild imbalance. I've never come across this since I started driving in 1968, getting on for a million miles later. You're learning all the time you're behind the wheel. Removing the frozen snow cured the problem.

 

[Hellcat]

Guy at work had ice on the insides of his alloys giving him tonnes of wobble! Not as unusual as you think!