trying to get my car out of the FROZEN solid snow and ice, picture this:

spinning the wheels and such...
rubber burning....
me getting angry...
a lot of hot water...
a lot of rock salt...

ok, after 30 minutes the car is free. now i'm tooling down the road and when i hit 40mph, the car is fricken rockin and at 60, the whole car shakes pretty violently.

guess i gotta hit up the friendly stealership, or acura specialists down the road

 

That just happen to me yesterday.

I just drifting around @ a HUGE parking lot w/ my friend a night b4, w/ alot of snow where the snow are fresh and deep. Yesterday, when I got on the Hwy, my car shakes like crazy. I got scared, took off the ramp, clean up the wheel/fender area. But it doesn't help. Went to the Acura dealership today and they told me the snow/ice got stuck inside the rims (16" steelies for my case). The quatity is so big that it won't fall off, or melt by the heat (from the brake). I don't trust them as usual, drove away and boot again on the hwy. And my car is back to its stable stage as if nothing happens.

I really don't know if we are the un-lucky ones. I thought I thrown off my alignment/wheel balance cause fooling around too much in the snow.

 

Oh... the service manager @ Acura told me the first thing should do is to take off the Rims... and check if there's any snow in there that's causing the problem. If not then it's something else. Hope this help.

 

Try shoveling the snow from under the car before. That always seems to help. My next door neighbor sat outside in his Saturn SUV, and was gunning it. I mean really gunning it. His car wouldn't budge, rubber was burning and it was going nowhere. He was out there for 2 hours wondering why his car wouldn't budge. Well, maybe because there's snow under it.

He then tried pouring hot water around the tire areas, which...he had 20 second intervals from running back inside to get more water. Obviously, it froze RIGHT when he came out.

 

best thing you can do is shovel as soon as possible after it snows, and definately before it ices. honestly your car isn't going to go out of alignment sitting in a parking spot! you'd have to hit something in the road to change the alignment, just clean out the snow and you should be fine

 

That would be wheel balance, not alignment, no?

 

same thing happen to me and i just found out the problem...there was a big block of ice frozen to the inner wheel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....so take out ur wheel and inspect it!!!!!!!!!!

 

I don't see what's so hard about it. Why is it so frustrating to shovel some snow from under the car. The guy outside was cursing for over and hour before I went outside and told him to shovel the snow from under his car. He said, I NEED TO BE AT WORK, and I said, well in the hour that you've sat there in your car looking like a dumbass, you could've removed the snow and be on your way.

 

It sounds like the wheels are out of balance due to packed ice/snow. The wheel can be out of balance with only a few grams of lead weight. Imagine if you have a block of packed ice stuck on the wheel.

 

hopefully thats it. the Acura/honda Specialists down the road said hes had over a dozen calls about this. all the snow and ice have accumulated on the rims and will make the car feel "like the flintstones" car.

i have to say, this is exactly my problem. it shakes violently above 40mph, and as you go faster it gets worse.

he said he'll spray it off and leave it inside for me for free! (I don't have a garage)

 

seems like i'm getting a lot of posts about cleaning out the snow from under the car. I HAD! the problem was the fact that the snow bank beside the car decided to melt, and then all that water froze underneath the car overnight. So when I woke up, i couldn't get out

 

Just ignore those people who thought we were dumb and don't understand our situation.... lol

It's not the snow that got stuck underneath the car that create the problem, it's the snow/ice that get INTO the rim/steelies that create this problem. Tell me, how can you shovel your rims or put salt in it???

 

pour some hot water on it.