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So you've got your car winterized and ready to survive months of snow. At the end of it all, however, you'll be left with salt marks in your wheel well carpets.

Perfectionist you is irked by that.

Fear not, it's easy to make those salt stains vanish using a little chemistry knowledge.

Salt dissolves in water. That means it alone would be easy to remove from a carpet. What really gets you are the additives used to keep the road salt from clumping.

These additives, CaCO₃ and MgCO₃, are non-water soluble bases.

Spray a 50-50…

AAA estimates that about 100.5 million holiday travelers will drive over 50 miles this December. That record-topping number means a record-topping amount of fuel consumed.

But it doesn't have to.

By following four rules, based on the laws of physics, you can reduce the amount of gas you'll burn when traveling home from Wharton for the holidays.

Drag coefficient

Also called wind resistance, this represents how hard your vehicle has to fight to push through the air. The lower it is, the less work your engine needs to do. You can:

• Wash your car, especially if you…

At Route 15 Used Car Center, we've seen it all where winter driving is concerned. There are many missteps a new driver can take, and plenty of ways to learn from experience.

Here are a few of our favorite winterizing tips.

Tires.

It's all about the tires.

They're the part of your car in contact with the ground-- if you've got proper clearance and the snowplow has been through, the only part.

If something else is dragging, we should probably talk.

So make sure you have at least 2/32 inches of tread depth, and preferably…