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Old 05-07-2010, 03:32 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Ice imbalance

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Originally Posted by tasdrouille View Post
x2. I have a lot more problems with wheels getting out of balance with hub caps than without in the winter.
I had an interesting experience last winter after I duct-tape smoothed my factory wheelcovers. We were doing a 2+ hour drive on powder snow covered roads to go skiing. At the end of the day as we left the resort and got up to speed on the interstate it felt like the back end of the car was going to shake apart. I stopped at the next exit and there were golf ball sized chunks of ice inside both back wheelcovers. The snow kicked up by the front wheels had filled the wheelcovers from the back, melted and refrozen during the day. Shook it out- smooth sailing. Never happened before I smoothed the wheelcovers and hasn't happened since but it's possible.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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