Well, even though there's still snow on the roads for the most part, and there's -11 degress fahrenheit in the forecast, I washed the bug. Yeah, those images I took, with snow in the wheels, making it essentially a snow donut, didn't melt off in the garage like I had hoped.
The wheels were all unbalanced on this morning's commute, and vibrated like crazy. I pulled over after about 6 miles, and couldn't get all the snow out of the wheels with my hand (it really hugged the inside of those rims). The snow was also really caked on under the entire front end, including the arms that go to each front wheel (are those the control arms? A-arms?).
So at lunch, I took it to an automatic wash, got the snow blasted out of there, and voila, no more unbalanced wheels. Mind you, the bug's just going to get dirty very quickly, but at least the wheels are balanced, and the snow is blasted off of it... for now.
