Rust is the bane of any vehicle owner’s existence, often creeping up unnoticed and turning a car from a sleek machine into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter road crews save your life and slowly kill your car. The same salt that keeps a mountain pass open will chew into brake ...

It's not unusual to find rust around salt water, but now the pairing might actually be useful. Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when salt ...

Winter weather brings one of the trucking industry’s greatest simultaneous friends and foes: road salt. Salt prevents and melts ice, making road surfaces safer for travel, but it also significantly ...

WEST SENECA, N.Y. (WKBW) — With the latest snowstorm to hit Western New York, crews are putting down large amounts of salt on the roads to melt the snow but all that salt can also seriously damage ...

Your car hates winter. Not because of the cold, the snow, the traffic or the constant digging and shoveling; that’s why you hate winter. No, your car hates winter because of all that damn road salt ...

AAA is urging drivers to wash road salt and de-icing chemicals from their vehicles to help prevent costly repairs in the future.

After winter storms, road salt lingers under cars, causing rust and expensive repairs. Experts urge timely washes to prevent ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - As the weather continues to trend warmer, drivers may be noticing the effects winter had on their vehicles. The salt, sand and brine from road treatment can cause rusting on the ...

When snow starts to fall in Idaho Falls, the city’s Street Division has already been active for hours, laying down salt brine. The city uses a 50-50, sodium chloride/sand mixture on select city roads ...

This week, Florida drivers in the northern part of the state are quickly learning or remembering how to drive in snow and ice as a freak winter storm blows cold white stuff in record-breaking amounts ...