I feel ya Farns. It looks odd, but when it snows or we have an ice storm, Im in the car wash getting all that crap off just for the reasons you mentioned. The ice storm we just had, the day after there were people driving down the road and you could see these monster sheets of ice flying off.

I dont have to take my car to the car wash so much now because I have a garage, but when I had to park outside I made time to be at the car wash. In fact, I remember one year that we had an ice storm and I had ice build up on the wheels and the sucker shook and rattled like crazy until I stopped at the car wash and cleaned all the ice off the wheels to restore the balance.