My 04' TL is ratteling like you would not beileve. I pulled over because I thought I had a flat tire. I did not.

Some things to take into consideration, I did drive in some very deep snow yesterday and I have recently installed new tires.

The tires have not made any additional noise untill yesterday so I do not think that is the cause.

Could I have damageeed somthing driving trough 15 inches of snow?

If so where should I start looking?

 

There's ice on your tires.

 

OR just like a batch of snow caught between the treads best idea is to have your rear tires on dry road and your front tires on a slippery road, snow or water, something slick. Lift the parking break put it into drive and floor it and give it gas in moderate amounts to keep it bouncing from 4~6K rpms, it should cause the tires to smoke and melt whatever is on off. Or you can drive it off tires should build up heat slowly.

 

Ill give that a try after work


I did knock away as much ice as I could when I pulled over but it didnt seem to help

Hopefully thats all it is

Thanks

 

ust to ask the obivious, did you get the tires balanced properly on a hunter roadforce PRO machine???

 

And if you have had them properly balanced (per csmeance) check to make sure you haven't lost any counter weights, it's very rare but I've seen it happen twice this winter on similar rims (in Calgary), apparently from road salt followed by freeze/thaw. Could be an easy fix before you go smokin your tires (what's the temp where you're at anyhow?). I can't answer my bumper colour issues, but hopefully this helps.

 

The noise went away due to a nice thaw.

We had a helluva lot of snow this past week. Smoe towns got 29.5 inches in 1 day.
I recently bought blizack snow tires at "Discount Tire Company" so I assumed that they balanced them when the installed the tires.

I can't bieleve it was ice all along. Well that was easy.

Thanks for taking the time to post guys.

 

It could have been snow or ice on the inside of the wheel around the brakes. When you drove through deep snow there is a possibility a chuck of it got lodged there.

 

It happens often when it snows, and many people confuse it for a flat tire or something else.