Can I drive a car that is not insured if I have insurance to drive any other car.?

Away With The Fairies

The short answer is no. Even if your own insurance covers you third party on other vehicles, that vehicle has to be insured elsewhere to be street-legal.

Thunderdog

No, the other car needs insurance of its own.

ANDY

Hello

You will need to check your policy but most companies cover you for any other car not owned by you, with the owners permission as long as you have not hired it.
Also check as most Full Comp policies has this but you drop down to 3rd Party only.
Also you will need to park it off the public highway as legally even if parked on the public highway it must be Insured, MOT'd and Taxed.
Let the garage know so they don't park it on the public highway either.

Andy C

kenbgray

No. you can't . Have the garage pick it up with their repair plates.

Bardic

Away With The Fairies is right. The vehicle must already be insured.

Michael H

NO, the car needs its own insurance policy as well.

-rachel

I used to work for in an insurance brokers (a good few years ago now so things could have changed!) but back then, you could only drive another vehicle under your own insurance on a Third Party only basis, so long as that vehicle had some sort of insurance in place also. So, no, you could not drive another vehicle under your own insurance if that vehicle is not insured.

....in answer to redbull's comment - you cannot insure something that you don't own yourself.

entidtil

In the USA, you may drive the other car and you should be covered

scott_wilshire1972

i saw one of those police programs no so long ago where the police car picked up on a non insured car and pulled it over. the bloke driving it was a mechanic taking back to its owner. the police phoned both the garage who provided insurance details and then phoned the owner to tell them they were lucky the mechanic was insured as his car would of been towed away. so on this basis it looks like the person has to be insured be be prepared to be pulled over as the vehicle itself isnt covered which is what will be on the national database.

i think he was allowed to carry on providing the vehicle was going to be parked off road.

BTW AWAY WITH THE FARRIES---- THIS IS A PRIVATE ISSUE NOT TRADE

xxlauraxxox

jus transfer over ur insurance onto that car for a couple hours cause i dot think ur covered

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