Posted Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 10:27pm

Here’s What Years of Salty Roads Will Do To Your Car’s Engine

I’ve lived in the northeast for most of my life, so I’m far too familiar with rusty suspension and subframe bolts. Of course, a car’s undercarriage and body panels aren’t the only parts affected by corrosion; engines can really suffer, too, as evidenced by this video from I Do Cars on YouTube. It shows off a typically reliable Subaru EZ30R flat-six that, as best as I can tell, finally succumbed to all that salt after years of exposure.