Ice causing wheel imbalance
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From: Indiana
'15 GLA250 4Matic, '13 GLK 4Matic (wife's), '01 Porsche Boxster S, 1938 Chevrolet Master Town Sedan
Ice causing wheel imbalance
Had an interesting experience yesterday. I have the sport package with AMG 5 spoke wheels. Over the weekend, we had a heavy wet 4 inch snowfall with temperature right at 32F. I made a short trip driving through the slush and on returning left my GLA parked in the driveway. (Unfortunately the wife's GLK and my Porsche and '38 Chevy get the garage space.)
Overnight the temperature fell to 15F. Next day I had bad vibration whenever driving faster than 35 MPH. When I got home checked the wheels. Sure enough, there was ice frozen to the inside of the rim on both rear wheels. The ice was only on the part of the rim that was at the bottom when it froze causing the imbalance. Moved my wife's car outside and the GLA inside for a few hours to melt the ice and eliminate vibration.
Hope this was a fluke due to odd wet/freeze weather conditions, not something that happens every time we get a deep snow.
Overnight the temperature fell to 15F. Next day I had bad vibration whenever driving faster than 35 MPH. When I got home checked the wheels. Sure enough, there was ice frozen to the inside of the rim on both rear wheels. The ice was only on the part of the rim that was at the bottom when it froze causing the imbalance. Moved my wife's car outside and the GLA inside for a few hours to melt the ice and eliminate vibration.
Hope this was a fluke due to odd wet/freeze weather conditions, not something that happens every time we get a deep snow.
