Drivers urged to use potato on car before Saturday for ‘life saving’ reason

It’s been a glorious week of sunshine for the UK as we’ve sizzled in hot temperatures - but this weekend will see it all crashing down in a flood of heavy rain.

And drivers are being urged to prepare their cars for significant downpours on Saturday and Sunday, with UK weather maps and the Met Office predicting deluges of up to a month’s worth of rain in the space of a few hours this coming weekend.

With the sunshine and heatwave conditions giving way to a monsoon, it’s very easy to get caught out by the sudden intense rainfall.

But one YouTuber, Simple & Fast, has shared a trick that ‘might save your life’ if you’re driving in heavy rain.

The bizarre hack involves rubbing a cut-in-half potato across your car’s windows.

First, take a potato and cut the potato in half. With the inside of the potato’s cross section now exposed, rub the starchy innards across the windscreen almost like you’re trying to scrub it clean using the potato.

When that’s done, the windscreen will become aquaphobic, resisting water.

Using a piece of masking tape to demo the trick, she divided the windscreen in two and rubbed the potato only on the left hand side, before chucking a bowl of water over the car.

She then explained: “As you can see, the right side has drops on it while the left side has none.

“This is ideal for days where it rains hard and you know that the windows fog up.”