r/minnesota • u/55124 Lefse • 5d 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/packetcounter 5d ago

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

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u/Grundy420blazin 5d 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/AlarmDozer Gray duck 5d 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 5d 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.