MADISON, Wis. -- Anyone driving around the Madison area these days is in for a bumpy ride as motorists must brave the aftermath of the havoc this winter wreaked on many roads.

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State as well as Madison city officials are assessing the condition of the winter-ravaged roads, and plan to do repairs when the weather allows, WISC-TV reported.

Madison's $4.8 million snow and ice removal budget is nearly gone for the year, but that might only be the beginning of the winter budget blues across the state.

Officials with the state Department of Transportation's Bureau of Highway Operations said that this year will definitely be a budget record-breaker, WISC-TV reported.

Another state highway department that handles the major improvements for roads is compiling a priority list of area roads that need immediate repairs due to winter damage, but it isn't clear how that will be paid for or if other state highway projects will get delayed, officials said.

The number of large potholes and other winter damage marking some roads is so severe that it poses a risk to vehicles. Local auto experts said that they're seeing an uptake in repair work and seeing increased cases of wheel damage.

Mechanic Dan Finke said that busted wheel rims are probably the most common problem lately, with cars hitting potholes or sliding off into curbs. He said that it's getting harder to find a wheel rim for some cars, too.

"The warehouse is running out of wheels on the popular cars, lots of GM intermediates," he said. "(They're) very popular and they fit a lot of cars. They were getting low last week already."

At Nakoma Auto Repair, off Verona Road, it's easy to see how "road rage" has taken on a whole new meaning. Battered for months straight by snow, ice and rain, some area roads are now taking bites out of some people's cars, WISC-TV reported.

However, some help is on the way to smooth out the roughest sections of road. While pothole crews continue their crusade along bad spots like East Johnson Street in Madison, some pothole-riddled roads will be a quicker re-do. One road is Eastwood Boulevard on the East Side, near the United Way. It will get a completely new resurfacing two years early, officials said.

City engineers said that crews will be doing minor repairs to state roads like Highway 113, which is known as Northport Drive and Packers Avenue, and a terribly pitted section of East Washington Avenue by East Towne Mall. Both highways are slated to be fully repaved by the state, but not for three to four more years. Officials said that until then, it's the city's responsibility to maintain them.

"We need to look at what we can do to maintain those pavements until we get to that point, and in some instances, consider moving those projects up," said Rob Phillips, deputy engineer with Madison's engineering department.

Joel Netsler, an official with the state's Highway Rehabilitation Program, said that it's unlikely any scheduled highway reconstruction will be moved up. He said it's likely the work will just include things like patching and joint repair.

A list of which roads might get such repair should be done in about two weeks, he said.

In the meantime, Dave Veith, the director of the Bureau of Highway Operations, said that his budget is already busted. He said that his total annual budget right now is almost $200 million.

Officials said that a normal winter usually eats up $50 million, but, this year, he said that all the winter damage will likely mean going $30 million to $40 million above that figure.