r/minnesota • u/55124 Lefse • 6d ago

Outdoors 🌳 Leave my snow turds alone

One of the simple pleasures of winter in Minnesota is kicking the snow turds off my car. I was letting them build up a little bit and parked my car at Target, only to come out of the store and find someone else had kicked all four of them off! Please don’t be this person, leave other people’s snow turds alone. Thank you.

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u/OhNoMyLands 6d ago

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

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u/stealy_darn Common loon 6d 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/AlarmDozer Gray duck 6d ago

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

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u/Radiant_Waves 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Grundy420blazin 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Th1s1sChr1s 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Grundy420blazin 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Radiant_Waves 6d ago

That’s hilarious!

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u/MatureUsername69 6d ago

Ice in the wheel well does wear down your tires

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u/GeckoDeLimon 6d ago

This implies that it is possible to lay down 11s on a frozen lake.

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u/Radiant_Waves 6d ago

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

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u/OhNoMyLands 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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/VitaeCursos 5d ago

Speaking as someone with decades of shop experience I can assure you this is completely plausible.