Cars get hangovers too

It’s not just people who can feel flat following Christmas and New Year festivities; the sub-zero temperatures predicted for early next year mean a higher-than-average number of car batteries will fail on Wednesday 2nd January - the first day back to work.

If a car has been standing idle in the cold while its owners have been partying over Christmas and New Year it suffers its own hangover of sorts as its asked to start for the first time in days – it’s the automotive equivalent of you being thrown out of your bed at 6am and asked to push out twenty press-ups on the spot.

It's cold and it's getting colder

With the country in the grip of freezing weather this week and a colder-than-average winter expected, motorists who want to avoid being stranded over the Christmas and New Year period are being urged to arrange car breakdown cover now.

December’s cold weather is forecast to continue through the New Year period and this will exacerbate the problem of flat batteries – traditionally the main cause of car breakdowns on the first day back at work after Christmas because vehicles have been left unused.