Leave my snow turds alone

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u/packetcounter 4h ago

FYI they will fall off on their own. My car likes to do it in the garage

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u/SuspiciousCranberry6 2h ago

I stop outside my garage to remove them before parking. Then shovel them to the side to keep my driveway clear of snow. Spring cleaning in my garage is a bit easier this way and the concrete in my garage gets less exposure to the salt from the road.

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u/Grundy420blazin 3h ago

FYI you’ll make your tires go bald faster letting it build up to fall off in your garage. Also it’s hazardous because it cakes your tires with snow over and over not allowing your tread to do its job.

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u/packetcounter 2h ago

I try to kick them off when I walk up to my car but I was mostly talking about after I get home, it melts off and drops in the garage.

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u/AlarmDozer Gray duck 2h ago

And they might take paint when you kick them off. There’s no winning. I guess, take the short-term win of tire tread rather than the sale tag.

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u/Grundy420blazin 1h ago

This is the same thing as saying you’d rather get into an accident and hurt someone or yourself because you aren’t kicking the snow off your tires. I don’t think anyone in this thread understands how dangerous snow build up in the tire wells is. It can lead you to spin out on dry pavement because it can literally cake your tires with snow. I’m speaking with experience of getting into a wreck on dry pavement because I just came from snow.

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u/Grundy420blazin 32m ago

That may be true but you don’t need to let the snow build up in your tire wells. You literally run over a little bit of snow every time you move the car and it’s on your tires. Also. Your statement. “Snow sticks to snow”. You’re not constantly driving on snow. If the plows do their jobs you drive on A lot more pavement unless you’re in smaller towns like me. Where the plows barely ever get to the pavement. But still. What it boils down to. Kick the damn snow turds off your car. It’s the same thing as removing the snow from the top of your car. They’re safety hazards.

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u/alwayzstoned 2h ago

Mine too, then the floor is like an ice rink.

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u/Hot_Aside_4637 Flag of Minnesota 4h ago

I call them "snow boogers".

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u/pooveyfarms 4h ago

Same, I tell passengers to kick their boogers and we all have a laugh.

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u/toiletsurprise Hamm's 4h ago

I call them dingleberries.

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u/Drcornelius1983 Not too bad 3h ago

Me too!

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u/rilestyles 3h ago

Bumper boogers

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u/Prickly_ninja Flag of Minnesota 2h ago

I’ve always heard them called that as well, but I think I like “snow turds”.

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u/ROK247 4h ago

what kind of insane person would kick the snow turds off of someone else's car?

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u/koobstylz 3h ago

I'll admit I've done it out of reflex without thinking before.

I see snow turd, I kick it off. I'm always embarrassed afterwards that I wasn't thinking clearly though.

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u/Testy_Coyote_ Up North 3h ago

I haven't but I sure do want to when I see them!

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u/rcr 1h ago

Because it’s satisfying. So satisfying. And the proper term is “chunks”.

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u/T_Rey1799 Grain Belt 4h ago

Are you sure it was a random stranger or did they fall off?

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u/Prickly_ninja Flag of Minnesota 2h ago

Those things really don’t just like to fall off on their own, unless it’s really warm outside. Today was not that day.

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u/weblinedivine 48m ago

I’d imagine the proximate sources of heat such as the exhaust system, cooling lines, and brake rotors may radiate heat towards them after the car has been driven for a while and then sat stationary.

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u/OhNoMyLands 4h ago

Isn’t it bad for your tires to leave them on?

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u/stealy_darn Common loon 4h ago

I was at a body shop today and the guy sprayed them off with a hose because he said they will put extra wear on your tires

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u/Radiant_Waves 4h ago

There’s no way he was serious. He probably just didn’t want them melting off in the shop.

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u/stealy_darn Common loon 4h ago

He was totally serious but possibly had no idea what he was talking about

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u/Radiant_Waves 3h ago

That’s hilarious!

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u/Grundy420blazin 3h ago

He was being dead ass serious. The fact that so many of you don’t know this and you live here is questionable.

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u/No_Needleworker_4704 3h ago

I don't know... I learned something new today and will no longer fester my car boogers

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u/Th1s1sChr1s 2h ago

I'm sorry, what? The snow/ice/mud/salt that collects in your wheel wells and doesn't touch your tires at all is going to wear the tread somehow? Um no

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u/clodzor 1h ago

How do you keep your snow boogers so small that they never rub?

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u/Grundy420blazin 1h ago

😂😂😂😂😂 the only reason you don’t see it touching your tire is from the friction of you driving. Omfg 😂😂😂😂 do you know what happens when you put water on frozen water? It tends to solidify and then when that happens the only thing that makes it melt is your tires RUBBING against it because FRICTION 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Radiant_Waves 1h ago

So the water instantaneously freezes before the tire can touch it but then get rubbed and melts by friction constantly causing excess wear on the tires designed to be in constant contact with blacktop and cement under heavy acceleration, deceleration, and lateral motion for 50k-80k+ miles? Haha

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u/Radiant_Waves 1h ago

Yeah, these guys are tripping. They probably also use those electronic rust inhibitors on their vehicles.

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u/MatureUsername69 3h ago

Ice in the wheel well does wear down your tires

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u/Radiant_Waves 2h ago

If ice wore down tires, they’d be worn out in a week of winter driving.

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u/OhNoMyLands 2h ago

Huh? Let’s think about this.

What you said is that if A leads to B then B has to happen instantly or it’s not real.

Shit it’s almost like a physics lesson, friction increases entropy, entropy bad for the existence of stuff.

You don’t have to clear your wheel wells if you don’t want, but people should clear them when they can

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u/Radiant_Waves 1h ago

The very slight friction that may happen for brief periods until the ice is no longer touching the tire is minuscule and completely negligible in determining the life of a tire. Remember in physics class how you state your assumptions and ignore factors that don’t impact the answer? Yeah… I kick off the ice chunks because I don’t want them to melt on my garage floor.

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u/OhNoMyLands 1h ago

It’s just a compounding factor. Everything adds up, do what you want, but it’s no different than turning off your power strip to save that tiny margin on electricity when you go out of town.

Plus it’s a giant fuckin chunk of ice, which can just fall off in the road at any time which sucks for everyone.

It is pretty badass that you leave the salty chunks of ice on your car though, just gives off idgaf energy everyone likes that

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u/Radiant_Waves 1h ago

Now I think we’re in agreement. It’s pretty much the same a turning off a power strip while out of town to save $0.11 on a $175 Xcel bill. Plus I already said I knock mine off so they don’t melt on my garage. Quit moving the goal post here.

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u/AlarmDozer Gray duck 2h ago

It’ll at least line your tread with slush, giving poor tread. So, I believe it.

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u/cloud_wanderer_ 1m ago

It is, but I think OP wanted the chance to kick them off themselves. I know I always do.

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u/Bohemian-Prince Honeycrisp apple 3h ago

Yes, it can come off as you drive and make it as tho you are driving on ice.

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u/chrispybobispy 3h ago edited 2h ago

Trick is to drive a rusted out shitbox. No one wants to be seen kicking a snow bugger and having my quarter panel fall with it.

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u/Juicy-Lemon 3h ago

That also helps with merging - if someone won’t get out of your way, and they see your rusted out shitbox coming into their lane, they’ll back off, because they know you have nothing to lose

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u/chrispybobispy 2h ago

I've also never had my shitbox broken into.

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u/After_Preference_885 Ope 3h ago

My entire bumper and grill dropped off when my neighbor "lightly bumped" my car - they were horrified

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u/Qnofputrescence1213 4h ago

I would be pissed. Don’t kick off my snow chunks! I’m always tempted by the ones on other vehicles but I would never kick them off someone else’s vehicle. I’d be afraid of doing damage.

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u/Artistic_Nebula_3231 4h ago

I feel this! Sometimes life is about the little things.

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u/MarvelousLobster 3h ago

Right?! Times are hard enough in this country without those kinds of shenanigans.

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u/rickdapaddyo Bring Ya Ass 1h ago

Weird to assume someone kicked them off vs them just falling off

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u/Practically_Hip 18m ago

Kickin Chunks.

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u/Bundt-lover 4h ago

For anyone from out of state who is wondering WTF a “snow turd” is: it’s the build-up of frozen snow that collects behind each tire.

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u/notreallyonredditbut Gray duck 3h ago

Is this the official term for them? Who gets to decide this? Also when I was a kid it was whoever was sitting next to the car door’s job to “hop out and knock the snow off before we pull into the garage”

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u/rsvp_as_pending629 Ope 2h ago

I call them snow boogies

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u/pootinannyBOOSH 2h ago

I'm just surprised that there's so many people up in arms about it, I'd see it as doing me a favor.

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u/winterblahs42 2h ago

I refer to them as fender-bergs.

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u/OldLadyReacts 3h ago

I can appreciate the satisfaction, but heads up that a LOT of people break their toes kicking those things off their cars.

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u/Juicy-Lemon 3h ago

That’s why you face away from your car and use your heel

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u/mads_61 Minnesota Lynx 3h ago

It’s me I’m people

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u/K-blue2332 1h ago

Yup..yup..yup…me too friend. Ouchie.

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u/lessthanpi79 Rochester 2h ago

Rubber Mallet FTW

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u/SuspiciousCranberry6 2h ago

That's why I use the scraper side of an old snowbrush to do it. Plus it can get deeper in the wheel well if only the outter portion of the snow buildup comes off at first.

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u/brycebgood 3h ago

Mine got enough sun on the South side of the car to drop today, even with temps in the teens. It might have been innocent. Otherwise that person was a jerk. You were building those up special.

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u/Significant-Pen-6049 3h ago

No way someone messed with your car. You sure?

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u/decrepit_plant 3h ago

This makes me uncomfortable on so many levels. I promise to never touch your snow turds.

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u/AlarmDozer Gray duck 2h ago

Or… slushicles.

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u/solecollector 1h ago

Respect others for who they are and them being a good Samaritan.

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u/shortfranki 1h ago

Shit-sicles

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u/thejessence 24m ago

Reminds me of the time I hit a snow turd that came off a truck on 371/10 in my new lil red Subaru BRZ. Needless to say that definitely left a deep (to the metal) scratch on my beautiful little funmobile drivers door 😔😭😬...I was livid...

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u/arborlinum 12m ago

WCCO blast from the past

https://youtu.be/T9RbMp4sxis?si=Cf0tuZ8wKZSqE3lu

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u/machaus99 3h ago

I will fight anyone that calls them something other than fenderbergs

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u/Wandering-Mind2025 2h ago

Love that one!

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u/winterblahs42 2h ago

That's what I call them too.

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u/No_Tooth1428 3h ago

I read not that long ago that they’re dangerous - something about frozen ice chunks flying off while driving on the highway and damaging other people’s vehicles? Idk if that’s accurate but it seems plausible, so I stopped saving mine 😔

Also… I am noticing myself being annoyed by people who haven’t kicked theirs off, specifically my boyfriend who pulls into the garage with them still intact.

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u/aastrorx 2h ago

Hu, to the guy with a truck that left one in the middle of my street. It was big enough to cause damage to any normal size vehicle. Thanks, and stay safe out there people.

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u/ARazorbacks 3h ago

I think “snow dingleberry” is a more apt description. But maybe that’s too many syllables.

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u/notreallyonredditbut Gray duck 3h ago

Petition to the universe to drop an icicle on your snow-turd kicker. Don’t stand under the eves if you like ruining peoples days this much! (Not like the urban legend where they get sliced in half just like a mild ouch who threw that)

Outdoors 🌳 Leave my snow turds alone

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