Winter road crews save your life and slowly kill your car. The same salt that keeps a mountain pass open will chew into brake lines, suspension arms, and frame rails if you let it sit. The fix isn’t ...

Road salt keeps roads usable, then it starts eating your car. Salt residue sits in seams, wheel wells, and underbody cavities ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Over 44 million pounds of salt hit Louisville's roads—capable of rusting cars. At the ImportDoktor on Lexington Road, owner David George knows what ends up on the outside of a car ...

Using too much de-icing salt can cause serious damage to metal, concrete, and the environment. We share the disadvantages of using too much de-icing salt.

Mid-January in America's rust belt always looks pretty much the same: The sky is grey with clouds, the roads are grey with a disgusting slurry of slushy goop, and our cars turn grey with a light coat ...

Dear Tom and Ray: I live in Vermont, where we get lots of ice and snow in the winter, and roads get a lot of salt spread on them. At any given time during the winter, a person's car might be encrusted ...