Temporary Car Insurance
Short Term Car Insurance
We provide instant short term car insurance for a wide range of uses including: a temporary vehicle, additional drivers, someone borrowing your car, expat visiting the UK, test drive cover, courtesy car cover, weekend cover, cover for children borrowing your car, temporary EU cover and many more.
Daily Car Insurance
We only provide daily car insurance from the biggest names in car insurance. Our comprehensive day insurance policies are underwritten by Aviva, RAC, Chaucer PLC, QBE and Mondial Assistance UK.
Temporary Cover for Cars
Customers aged 21* and over can purchase short term, comprehensive car insurance for periods of between 1 and 28 days, subject to a maximum of 112 days in any rolling 12 month period. The temporary cover can be booked up to 28 days in advance of usage. An added benefit is that short term cover does not affect any annual no claims bonus levels. European cover is also available for an additional cost.
*subject to acceptance criteria
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Short Car Insurance
Drivers will need additional, short car insurance at some stage, either to use a vehicle that does not belong to them, to drive home a new purchase or to insure another person to drive their own vehicle. Here are a few examples:
- Emergency day cover for a temporary driver, or additional vehicle
- Temporary car insurance for planned uses such as driving another car/van, borrowing a friend’s vehicle or travelling on a driving holiday
- Temporary cover to facilitate the delivery of your new purchase
- Day cover for test-driving a private car or a Dealer’s demonstrator
- Driving a Dealer’s courtesy car while yours is being serviced/repaired
- Visiting from Australia or New Zealand and need daily cover to borrow a car
- Expats borrowing family/friends cars in the UK
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Weekly Car Insurance
We provide a simple, easy to use internet booking website that requires minimal information about both the driver and the vehicle. The site clearly directs the user through the week car insurance application process, payment is made via secure debit/credit card transaction, and the certificate and schedule can be printed out immediately at the end of the application process. We also send a copy of the certificate and schedule attached to a confirmatory email. For an additional fee you can request a posted certificate of car insurance.
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Weekend Car Insurance
When you need a break from the mundane it would be great to get the family together, put the tent in the car with the dogs, pack up and just go. Real life is not like that. You cannot fit it all in the company car, but your mate will let you borrow his people carrier for the weekend. In the past getting insurance at short notice was a problem and often put paid to the great, spur of the moment plans and fun for your family. Our weekend car insurance policy is the answer. You can get short term cover in minutes on line for as long as you need to cover your short break. Go on, just do it!
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Day Insurance
How can I borrow my friend’s car but make sure his no claims bonus is protected? Insure daily with our day insurance policy and you will be able to drive the car with a short term car policy in your name that protects the no claims bonus of the owner of the car. What are you waiting for? You can go online and buy the day cover in minutes and get driving.
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One Day Car Insurance
One of the unique features of our one day car insurance policies is that you can buy a day policy in minutes and print off your certificate of insurance at home. You can also select to purchase a posted certificate if you want to. It’s simple, instant and caters for our hectic lifestyles.
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Day Cover
We provide day cover to all post code districts in the UK and insure from ages 21 to 75 inclusive subject to our acceptance criteria and district rating matrix. To find out if you could be eligible to buy our daily insurance products all you need to do is complete a car insurance quick quote which takes less than 20 seconds. If you like the price you can then continue to get a full quote and buy our temporary insurance.
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Daily Insurance
We pride ourselves in, not only being the first short term car insurance provider in the UK, but in remaining at the cutting edge of this daily insurance market in innovation, service provision and providing what our customers want from temporary motor insurance products. We offer a range of vehicles we will temporarily insure including cars, vans, motorhomes, classic cars, cherished cars and motorbikes. No other short term insurance provider can match our combination of great price, vehicle range, vehicle ages, UK coverage, customer ages & profile, EU cover and daily road side assistance from the best providers in the market.
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Temporary Cover
We are specialists in providing temporary cover for the widest range of vehicles on the market. We only do temporary insurance and understand this market and how we need to keep innovating new products to meet our customers’ needs. We invented the UK on line market of car insurance by the day, day van insurance, daily motorbike insurance, daily car breakdown, day motorbike breakdown, daily motorhome insurance and everyone else follows our innovations. That’s why we continue to create new day insurance products and watch this space (here on our website) for the new products we are launching in the next few weeks that will keep us ahead of the competition and prove we really are the market leaders.
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Daily Breakdown Cover/DayresQ
Just to prove a point that we really are the market leaders in day cover policies, you only have to look as far as our dayresQ products for cars, vans and motorbikes. We have partnered with not one but two of the biggest names in roadside recovery and provide daily recovery for your vehicle for a modest additional fee. It is a quality product and can be selected to cover Europe for those touring holidays. We did this in June 07 and most of the competition has still not caught up yet. But, like everything we do, because we are specialists in daily cover policies, we have not stopped there and we will reveal our new daily breakdown policies in early 2010!
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