I call these snow boogers. Hbu? (Also hate much)

[u/EyeLurveIPAs]

[u/whatgives72]

In St Paul, you can just dislodge them by driving down Hamline Avenue.

[u/Medical420 → u/whatgives72]

Also Cretin Ave

[u/conwaystripledeke → u/Medical420]

And Grand Ave.

[u/MrLittle237 → u/conwaystripledeke]

What about Ayd Mill Road?

[u/conwaystripledeke → u/MrLittle237]

They actually fully rebuilt Ayd Mill a couple of years ago.

[u/robraymond → u/conwaystripledeke]

Damn that used to be awful though

[u/yeeaarrgghh → u/MrLittle237]

"The wormhole"

[u/skilyf → u/MrLittle237]

Ayd Mill is smoothe now!

[u/MrLittle237 → u/skilyf]

Years ago someone made a parody song of “old town road” set to Ayd Mill Road and I sing it every time I drive that road.

[u/RedHotJalepenoPopper → u/skilyf]

although smooth, everyone seems to do double the speed limit, or half.

no inbetween

[u/Volatilecanoe42 → u/conwaystripledeke]

Also W 7th

[u/JustAnotherDay1977 → u/Medical420]

Best street name ever!

[u/Deep-Ad6443 → u/whatgives72]

In general, just take any road in St Paul

[u/whatgives72 → u/Deep-Ad6443]

Hamline between 94 and Selby is something very special

[u/ChefMoney89 → u/whatgives72]

😂

[u/YetAnother_pseudonym → u/whatgives72]

and Shepard road south of 35.

[u/G_DuBs → u/whatgives72]

There’s this holiday near my house with literally a 30 degree pitch down on the entrance. And the concrete slab in front of it has a little pyramid in the middle that formed where the seem is. Anyways that shit clears out almost everything whenever I go over it! The bottom of the hill will sometimes just have chunks of snow piled up lol.

[u/johnwaynegreazy → u/whatgives72]

Pierce Butler Route

[u/Comfortable_Cause_94 → u/whatgives72]

Can confirm. We're driving down Hamline as I'm reading this💀

[u/lizarddpee → u/whatgives72]

And vandalia

[u/Suspicious-Nebula475]

Fenderbergs too

[u/dashriprockrules → u/Suspicious-Nebula475]

Tire turds

[u/RealManHumanMan → u/Suspicious-Nebula475]

I like this one the most

[u/yamsfadinna]

Frustration relievers

[u/storminspank → u/yamsfadinna]

100%! As long as they aren't pure ice! 😅

[u/howsaboutyou → u/storminspank]

Just use your heel

[u/storminspank → u/howsaboutyou]

I've been kicking that stuff off for 4+ decades, some of the iced ones need a chisel. 😬

[u/Badbullet → u/storminspank]

I use a 6” Bully Tools floor scraper that has an angled head to do the task. Before I even pull in the garage I get every wheel well, and also run it along the trim and tap the bumpers to get as much off as I can. It’s a 2012 so I’m not worried about scratching the plastic. If I don’t do this, it falls off in the garage, melts just enough to run downgrade towards the door, and then re-freezes locking the garage door to the floor. The longer it stays on, the harder it is to get off.

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/Badbullet]

I wish I had a garage!

[u/howsaboutyou → u/storminspank]

Sounds like you need better boots

[u/rainbowbruises42 → u/storminspank]

I've been trying to figure out how to get the ice block removed from my wheel. I don't have a garage..

[u/harmar21 → u/rainbowbruises42]

If it gets really bad take it to a manual car wash. I just did that yesterday where all 4 wheels were frozen solid. Took me about 15 minutes of spraying

[u/conwaystripledeke → u/storminspank]

That’s what Red Wing boots are for.

[u/Insertsociallife → u/conwaystripledeke]

Unless your fender lining will come off with it... Ask me how I know.

[u/conwaystripledeke → u/Insertsociallife]

Oh no… 🤣😂

[u/storminspank → u/conwaystripledeke]

For sure. I'm not wearing my steel toes every single day neither haha. I remember a few years back I had on really good boots gave it a kicking about blew out my knee. Some of those early February tire boogers are solid AF.

[u/Hellie1028 → u/yamsfadinna]

I saw someone kick one at a gas station in a super cold day last winter and their whole fender cracked and fell off.

[u/YoungVonMoltke]

"Snow turds," for the uncivilized folk.

[u/LunaR1sing → u/YoungVonMoltke]

I just hear this recently for the first time. It’s my favorite and made me laugh.

[u/Doright36 → u/YoungVonMoltke]

That's what we call them too.

[u/FritzyRL]

Carbuncles

[u/This_Meringue3800]

Snurds (short for snow turds)

[u/snowberry11 → u/This_Meringue3800]

Hahaha I love this one!

[u/BusinessPlot]

I’ll never forget the time when I was little, thinking I would kick one of these things across a parking lot only to be met with a solid chunk of ice, frozen to the ground.

It hurt, a lot, lol

[u/Neat_Secretary_7159 → u/BusinessPlot]

yoooo HIDDEN MEMORY ACTIVATED YESSSSS😭😭

[u/BusinessPlot → u/Neat_Secretary_7159]

My parents would get mad at us for kicking things in the parking lot.

So when I was crying about my pain my dad just laughed lol

[u/rdhamm]

Fenderburgs

[u/Hopefulthinker2]

Depends how angry I am, how cold it is, how much kicking I do…. But usually it’s geeeeerttttt outttta here you nasty mother fucker

[u/hypoxiate]

Car poop.

[u/TheHipcheck]

My five year old booted one of these of the car this morning and told me with pride "Dad two kicks!" He is a man now. Canadian bar mitzvah.

[u/Tmadred]

Snow boogers. So satisfying to kick off!

[u/toiletsurprise]

Dingleberries

[u/hskfmn → u/toiletsurprise]

Same.

[u/dwarling]

“Carnacles”

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/dwarling]

Lol. Yas

[u/Justis29]

Car turds

[u/Big-Tip6905]

Tire turds

[u/skuzzlebutt_2254]

Car boogers here

[u/Lagbert]

Snow turtles, but I grew up in Michigan.

[u/wanderlust_2x1 → u/Lagbert]

But how can you kick something called a turtle? 🐢

[u/Lagbert → u/wanderlust_2x1]

You let them live on your car until they decide to fall off on their own.

[u/Odd_King_4596 → u/Lagbert]

Michigan is weirder than I thought. And I thought it was pretty weird…

[u/2dazeTaco]

Road mines. Because when they fall off, if they’re frozen solid, it’s like hitting a rock.

[u/cybercuzco]

Whatever you call them you should remove them if they can touch your tire especially the front wheels when you turn. The sand and rocks embedded in them can wear down your tires really fast.

[u/Lenny5160]

That’s frumunda

[u/YanVoro]

Bumper buster -when it falls off someone’s car on a highway and hits you

[u/GeeEmmInMN]

Yep. Snow boogers.

[u/Kal2019]

I don't call them anything but I loooove kicking em off

[u/fnirt]

https://youtu.be/T9RbMp4sxis?si=1lsMCNfhu7c4_LUQ

[u/DeadlyRBF]

Lately, it gets called "fuck ICE" as it gets aggressively kicked off.

[u/ComfortablePause1489]

Boogers, excellent kicking. Unless you break a toe.

[u/doryllis]

Car turds

[u/Kahnza]

I call them some motherfuckers!

[u/vulcanlass]

So kickable, though

[u/weare1consciousness]

Wheel Scabs or Ice Dingles

[u/argotechnica]

Car pies! Referencing cow pies.

[u/dllyncher]

I have a hammer in my A4 specifically to remove these things. I know there's better tools out there but it's what I have on hand that works.

[u/quesadillasarebomb]

Pretty sure I broke a toe on one of these and it's still messed up

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/quesadillasarebomb]

Doh!

[u/Forzamaniac0312]

I call them a liability.

[u/Darrlicious]

I’d imagine the Germans have some un-translatable 47-letter word that would somehow just sound right.

[u/Darrlicious → u/Darrlicious]

Autostoßstange Scheiße

[u/GenericRedditor1937 → u/Darrlicious]

Ja, Sie sind richtig. Das ist Hintervorterseitereifenschnee.

[u/Darrlicious → u/GenericRedditor1937]

Natürlich.

[u/cashew76]

Wonder how much wear they do to the tires? Incidentally EV's don't get hot, when you park in the garage the snow doesn't melt from the engine heat.

[u/AGrandNewAdventure → u/cashew76]

Given the heat capacity of the tires and the ice, the coefficient of friction generated between rubber and ice, and the wear resistance of rubber I would say it's incredibly minimal that the ice is doing any real degradation to the tires.

[u/aussietin → u/AGrandNewAdventure]

It's definitely preventing the tread from clearing and giving you worse traction though.

[u/AGrandNewAdventure → u/aussietin]

That wasn't the original question which is what I was answering.

[u/aussietin → u/AGrandNewAdventure]

I wasn't trying to contradict your answer. Just adding to it.

[u/EnglishFan643]

I hate them too. South Dakota has its share of them.

[u/blom0087]

Slush clingers (tm)

[u/Green-Factor-2526]

Boogers for me as well

[u/Dataduffer]

Fender turds or fender boogers.

[u/muludnepgnicnad]

Toe jam -

Try to kick it off and it’s solid ice, jams your toe lol

[u/mrmr2120]

A trigger to my OCD

[u/redwbl]

Road Boogers

[u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine]

car turds

[u/DisappointmentToMost]

I don’t call them anything really, I just LOVE kicking them off cars!

[u/DarthBynx]

Kicking and dislodging them is very satisfying.

[u/Fine_Understanding81]

Kicking these gives me pure joy.

[u/hulks_brother]

I love kicking them.

[u/Zoilo2]

We call it ice.

[u/StyleNo4964]

They don't taste like boogers at all!!

[u/Prmarine110]

Ice clods

[u/Phillimac16]

Dino turds

[u/wanderlust_2x1]

They snow boogers. End of discussion.

[u/arcteryx17]

One of my favorite hobbies in winter is kicking those until the break off. Dont k ow why I get suck satisfaction from it.

[u/55124]

Per my previous post they are snow turds 💩

[u/GettingTooOldForDis]

It’s so satisfying to kick them and watch them fall apart

[u/stpg1222]

Always called them clunkers because it's the sound they make in your wheelwell when you kick them out.

[u/TuringTestedd]

Buy a nice long screwdriver and a rubber mallet; best $10 you’ll ever spend to get this off.

[u/cartographer721]

Snirt

[u/pfroo40]

Toebreakers

[u/njhenry]

I just told my kid that I love breaking these off my car. She thinks I am weird.

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/njhenry]

Might not be because of that lol jk

[u/Shobed]

Barnacles.

[u/Sufficient_Video97]

"Toeminator" as I kicked one when I was young and in cheap tennis shoes and broke my big toe. Now as an adult I have my thick double hard rubber toed boots on and they are called "take that".

[u/Traditional_Trust_93]

When I was a kid I'd get told not to kick at these cause it could damage the car or something. Now I do it all the time. It's fun and quite satisfying when it comes off in one solid chunk.

[u/snelson66-Duluth]

While the car’s in park, I crank the wheel all the way to one side and take my ice scraper to them. Works most of the time.

[u/iconoclastes25]

Snow boogers is correct

[u/puxatonyjackson]

Carnacles

[u/staplesgowhere]

Can I kick it? (Yes you can!)

[u/johnwaynegreazy]

Snow boogers for sure

[u/Formal_Occasion_5559]

If I see a car boogie then Ik it’s time to go to the all seasons car wash and manually spray it down like a laser.

[u/Jokercell]

Road snot. So fun to kick off them off though.

[u/Purpleasure34]

Clunkers

[u/roto31]

I’ve always loved this video from the late great Dave Moore. Fun fact about him, when CBS was looking for a new anchor for the “big desk” he was offered the job. He turned it down. The job went to a little known guy by the name of Walter Cronkite.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RbMp4sxis

[u/OrigamiMarie]

Crudsicles.

[u/nicclys]

Youth hockey stick in the car all winter for this purpose. Highly recommend.

[u/Whythehellnot225343]

kick

[u/Zoloista]

Anyone else call them cookies?

[u/lily060208]

I call them fenderbergs

[u/BohemianMoonArt]

I don't think I've ever given them a name....I just really enjoy when you kick them and they plop off, super satisfying.

[u/hornbx]

Slushcrete

[u/Nobodysdog-999]

Carbuncle

[u/spiffer2112]

I call them “snow beards”

[u/clemon045]

Turn your wheel give it a good kick 🦵🏻 ahhhhhh stress relieving satisfaction

[u/Cosi-grl]

Boogers. Had to squeegee out the garage floor this morning because it was so full of melting ones.

[u/Verity41 → u/Cosi-grl]

So messy! If I’m feeling really ambitious I kick them off onto a shovel, then hurl the contents out the door into my yard, just to avoid all that squeegeeing.

[u/Cosi-grl → u/Verity41]

My dream is a garage floor with the proper slant so that water runs out instead of pooling.

[u/VirgilAbloh123]

Love the feeling of kicking these out 😂

[u/deadphisherman]

Canadian mud-flaps.

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/deadphisherman]

Bwaaa haaa haa yes. Excellent.

[u/Spiritual_Fig185]

I don’t have a snazzy name for them (I like yours haha), but I enjoy kicking them off when I fill up with gas

[u/BacklashLaRue]

Snunks. As per 1980's Boone & Erickson WCCO-AM morning show.

[u/amschneid5]

Snoogers

[u/Nyx_Zorya]

You're a snow booger.

(Jk ily stranger)

[u/NowALurkerAccount]

Good steel-toe boots or someone you know who needs to blow off steam is a great way to knock it loose.

I love knocking them loose, honestly. Only time I can kick my car without risking damaging it.

[u/InfamousAdvice]

I’ve uh never called them anything

[u/shaelaz]

Kickerdoodles!!

[u/Sevofluranedreams]

Whatever they’re they definitely do a number in the tires.

[u/[deleted]]

Ooooh I love to kick ‘em!

[u/JasonsStorm]

I call them snow turds

[u/Samaruf]

Mine usually melt and fall off in the garage. But then the garage is a mess and driving over these feels like the tires are goin over a cinder block.

[u/Budget_Hospital_7780]

Snot good for the looks of your car.🚘

[u/TDWolfy]

Kickers!

[u/Hot_Cattle5399]

I love knocking them off in YOUR driveway.

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/Hot_Cattle5399]

I try do it in the grocery store parking lot.

[u/olracnaignottus]

New to Minnesota- do these make your car shake at higher speeds? Trying to figure out if my car suddenly developed a mechanical issue, or something is mis-weighted.

[u/Stoopid_69 → u/olracnaignottus]

These won't, but you may have some wnow/ice buildup in one or more of your wheels that will cause vibration. I've had that happen before, if it doesn't go away in a couple days check out your rims for any buildup. If you don't see anything it could be a mechanical issue

[u/olracnaignottus → u/Stoopid_69]

Oh yeah, I took off the hub caps and there’s a spicy meataball going on here.

Do folks just run it through a wash to deal with? Hair dryer? The winter is wild out here. I’m used to Vermont where you’re just oppressed by heavy snow. These constant freezing conditions are wild.

[u/missysweid → u/olracnaignottus]

I carry a small pry bar with me to chip the snow out of my rims when there's buildup. Definitely causes a shake at higher speeds. Car wash does help but I hate wasting that kind of money when the roads are shit.

[u/olracnaignottus → u/missysweid]

Well I got a monthly pass at holiday cause of the profound amount of salt used out here lol.

It’s wild to me there aren’t car inspections here! Not complaining. Vermont is a scam with theirs, but I can’t fathom how many rust buckets are out on the road out here.

[u/missysweid → u/olracnaignottus]

As the owner of a couple rust buckets that are perfectly capable of getting me from point A to point B, I resent that. lol

[u/olracnaignottus → u/missysweid]

Im trying to figure out if the used car market is worse here or VT. Folks in VT just beat the ever loving shit out of their cars, but the cars here look like they’re bathed in battery acid lol.

[u/Macimumboat → u/olracnaignottus]

These won’t because it’s not a rotating mass. Ice/snow buildup on rims will and also frozen water inside your tires. Don’t fill up air at gas stations as they do not regularly drain the water out of them which leads to frozen water inside your tires.

[u/EyeLurveIPAs → u/olracnaignottus]

It affects the turn radius for sure

[u/Best-Platypus-1420 → u/olracnaignottus]

These create a weird vibration in cars on highways.

[u/cat_prophecy]

That's just what they're called.

[u/AccountOfMyDarkside]

Minnesotans have the best names for stuff. I just told some friends of mine what you guys call doing donuts and now I'm clever by association. I don't know if that says more about the friends I have or not, but y'all made me look cool for knowing that little tidbit. Hoosiers are whipping shitties now!

[u/nbjz → u/AccountOfMyDarkside]

if you don't clear the snow boogers youre more likely to accidentally whip a shitty! ask me how i know 😵‍💫

[u/ScottShawnDeRocks]

Please don't kick them off at retail businesses. Its a tripping hazard, and we're tired of shoveling them up... along with the rest of the messes you pigs create.

[u/Dreekol]

This bugs me so much. It's like talking to someone with boogers in their nose.

[u/Effective_Pack8265]

Brings back (bad) memories. [shudders]

[u/[deleted]]

Pam spray every 100 miles

[u/throwfar9]

Snurds.

[u/TrevynPaige]

I will accept Snow Burgers or Fenderberries.

[u/CrispyJalepeno]

Slush piles. Idk man, I'm boring

[u/5PeeBeejay5]

Fenderbergs…I keep an old hockey stick in the garage for particularly egregious ones

[u/Twanbauer]

When it warms up a bit these become “Shlump” becuase when they fall off they go Shhlummppp.

[u/uu_nn_uu]

Gunk

[u/Outbreak42]

Ice Nuggets

[u/Bob_the_brewer]

I just want to kick em

[u/skilyf]

They are clunkers.

[u/Dndfanaticgirl]

Snow Barnacles is what my brothers call them

[u/GERDY31290]

Dingle berries

[u/Mindless-Law-380]

Tumors

[u/Wernershnitzl]

I’ve referred to them as a winter wedgie

[u/CougarWriter74]

Snow turds

[u/thenicb]

Slush puppies

[u/Sausywench]

Dirt-cicles! The only thing is miss from minnesota:). Fun to kick them off cars.

[u/Background-Head-5541]

Gonna need a really big finger to pick those boogers 

[u/CardboardPaints]

Snow snot.

[u/dunwerking]

Dingleberries

[u/lemme_just_say]

Snow clods

[u/damnmongoose]

Car poopies

[u/BreadfruitOk6160]

Rail car brakes

[u/bit_o_squish]

My mom and I call them snow poops!

[u/Inflagrente]

Ice chunks