Taking good care of your car can become increasingly difficult, depending on where you live. The most prominent example is that some areas are more likely to cause your car to rust than others. The ...

Icy, snow-covered roads demand salt and other ice-melt techniques to make them passable in winter. While road salt (i.e. snow salt or ice salt) and brines are critical to keeping roads safe, they can ...

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 ...

Road salt, or a liquid version of it, is used to melt snow and ice on roads across the U.S. It is very effective for making roads safer, but salt accelerates rust, which can damage safety-related ...

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 ...

For some parts of the country, winter weather means salting the roads to help melt the ice. But that's not the case in Houston. The city uses brine, which is a saltwater solution, to prepare roads for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — When winter weather sweeps across ...