Mine get(s) bigger or smaller, depending on the ambient temperature, and the amount of moisture in the proximal environment.

It seems that the amount of "moisture" on the "road" is directly related to the size and abilty to remain functional in the "cavity" (also known as "wheel well")

hmmmmm.....




Matt

 

Christ......

I never knew they "snards" actually had a name

Read In?

I'm lost here....where the F's my Thesaurus

 

The above was found on the internet.

 

I went to the car wash this afternoon to remove unwanted snard's and while spraying my truck off all I did was laugh....those darn snard's were hanging all over my truck and all I could think of was this thread.

 

I hear you Longbow, I just spent over $10.00 to rid my truck of these dreaded things at the self serve car wash......they were everywhere, stuck to everything. These things really demoralize people that enjoy clean looking vehicles. On the other hand it is like you get a new vehicle every spring because generally we don't see our truck as they normally would be until at least april.

In Minnesota we say we have 2 seasons as well.....winter and road construction, and if you don't like the weather just wait a couple hours, and it will change.

 

I can certainly relate upnorth. We also have very long winters and the crap our state puts on the road is rediculous. They put a combination of salt, sand, and cinders. I didn't even want to look underneath my truck yesterday. The truck only has 1,500 miles on it and its caked in frozen snard's. I need to make another trip to the snard wash today to remove the remaining snard's.

Ron

 

It actually made it up over freezing yesterday for the first time in over a week up here. I took the opportunity to visit the local snard wash and attempted to remove most of the offending appendages. Well, I must have succeeded because the truck looks like I added a lift kit. I almost got high centered on my own snards though. The bad news is that the paramedics tell me that the guy in line behind me apparently died of old age.

 

2stroked,

That was great! I can relate.

I went to the snard wash again yesterday to remove the remaining snards. I think people were actually mad at me because my truck was clean compared to all the salt ridden vehicles that were coming to be de-snared. Believe it or not I have to go back today to do some more removal. Its been so cold up here that all that road crap is sticking to everything. I'm almost de-snard.

 

lol..never hear them called that up here....

but we got them...but they are usually the same mix....only they are solid ice and heavy if left on.

It is common for us to break a toe or two..trying to kick them loose.....

...you ever kick a solid peice of ice chunk???...ouch.

Usually end up going to the local car wash and blastin it for an hour using up 5 bucks to get them to come loose.

 

It has to be at least 25-30 degrees out before attempting to forcably remove them.

Is there a term for my totally salt encrusted truck. There is a small patch on the roof where you can identify it as True Blue.

 

Being as I live in Arizona... The snards havn't migrated to our parts of the country. With these snard sightings that people have been talking about, I'm curious as to what these look like. Can someone post a pitcure of these things in their natural habitat?

I feel like I'm asking for a bigfoot or lochness monster picture as I have never seen one of these, or even heard of them for that matter..... Ignorance comes with the state I guess....

 

Longbow, I hit paydirt it has turned tropical here in minnesota and after making a few phone calls talked my buddy at the body shop that I hang out at to let me in as we have no precipitation forcast for about a week and temps over 30 F + all this week. 5 hours later my truck emerged spotless and with a new coat of NXT!! Fully detailed the insides and got the grime off the tires, rims and whole undercarriage......suprising what an endless supply of hot water will do to a truck. Looks like new!!

 

Yeah we are suppose to get your weather this weekend. I may even be able to hand wash my truck to remove the salt and grime. I'm happy to report that the SNARD's are all gone.

Ron

 

Here you go....this would be considered a small snard.

A snard's size is gauged by the measurement in inches extending past the bottom, to the sides and above the mud flap. When the sum of these measurements are divided by the outside temp, you then obtain the "Snard Coefficient"

 

You gotta learn to hold those sunglasses/glasses out of the picture! LOL!

I looked and looked at that picture trying to figure out what in the heck the wire thing on your rim was... then I figured it out.

RP