If you've ever been involved in a road traffic accident, you'll know your brain seems to go into overdrive. One minute you're happily driving along, the next you're trying to remember where your insurance documents are, wondering if everyone's okay and hoping someone else knows what they're doing.

Then you start thinking about all the advice you’ve heard over the years…

Every year, as soon as winter starts creeping in, we're reminded to check our tyres, top up the screenwash and throw an ice scraper into the boot.

And that's great advice. But with the unprecedented temperatures we've been experiencing across the UK and most of Europe recently, I started wondering... why don't we talk about preparing our cars for summer just as much?