According to latest figures winter tyres are in short supply with stockists not expecting deliveries until January.
Christmas journeys will be made even more hazardous for those hoping to swap their car tyres to winter ones to enable their car to handle better in freezing conditions.
What Car? revealed more than 87 percent of stockists do not expect to have any more winter car tyres until the New Year.
Some outlets claimed the bad weather was slowing their deliveries and were hoping to have tyres by the end of the week.
“If climate change is going to bring us much colder winters, we believe the Government should look at making a tyre change compulsory in winter,” said Steve Fowler, What Car? Editor-in-Chief.
“It would help to ensure that the country keeps moving safely and that motorists have more grip and confidence behind the wheel.”
Research by the AA also showed the regions in the UK where motorists were more or less likely to fit winter tyres.
Twelve percent of drivers in Scotland, nine percent in the North East, nine percent in Wales, and nine percent in Yorkshire and Humberside were likely to have bought winter or all season tyres this year.
Motorists in Northern Ireland were found to be the least likely to put a shovel in their car in preparation of getting stuck in snow, 26 percent, while 49 percent in Scotland were likely to have done this.
Those the least prepared were Londoners with 53 percent admitting to have done nothing while those in Scotland were the least likely to have done nothing at 35 percent.
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