As temperatures soar people are being warned to take extra precautions to stay safe, with a red warning for extreme heat issued by the Met Office. And as drivers will know, when it's hot outside, it's even hotter inside a parked car.
One TikTok user discovered just how hot her car was when she successfully cooked an egg inside it. The video, which was shared by Peter Vardy, a used car retailer, was created by a user called Gladys, from Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
In the video, Gladys positions a frying pan on the dashboard of her Toyota Yaris and fries an egg in the sun's heat. She said: " I work as a community carer and we had been so hot travelling around in the car, that I brought in two thermometers to check what the temperature was inside. The temperature at one point had reached 58.3°C!
" Just the day before I was discussing the weather with a friend and I thought, ‘I wonder if you could cook anything in the car?’, so I gave frying an egg a go! It fully cooked after about an hour of sitting in the vehicle. I couldn’t believe it."
Craig Forbes, a motoring expert from the Peter Vardy dealership, said: " Many drivers will know the pain of getting into a sizzling car. The fact that car interiors are hot enough to cook an egg is pretty worrying.
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"My advice to drivers would be to take care during the heatwave, take extra steps to cool your car’s interior and if you think it’s too hot to drive comfortably, don’t get behind the wheel."
Further to this, Peter Vardy have offered three top tips to keep your car cool during the summer:
- Hang an iced damp flannel in front of your vents to cool the air blown at you as you drive.
- Use old bedding as dashboard covers if you're not able to park in the shade. If you've got leather seats, you can cover them with old clothes when you're not driving.
- Air out the car before you drive by opening the doors and windows.
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