A Quick Guide To Drive Away Insurance
Nowadays, you can get an insurance policy for pretty much anything you need, from 1 day insurance to full comprehensive yearly cover. So what is drive away insurance, and why might you need it?
Drive away insurance is designed for when you’ve purchased a new car, and want to drive it home from the dealer or garage. In Britain, you need full cover in order to drive a car home, even if it’s a short, one-off trip. For a lot of people, they will have already organised long-term insurance if it’s a new car for themselves which will simply be added to their existing policy. For others though, drive away insurance is cheaper and more convenient; let’s have a look at a couple of the instances where this may hold true:
-You’ve just purchased a new vehicle and want to drive it home, but you won’t be using the car for a little while after that.
-You’re buying a car for someone as a gift, and so only need insurance in your name to get it home.
As you can probably tell, in either of these instances a yearly policy would be a waste of money and time, as it’s just not necessary. Taking out a drive away policy would mean you could drive your vehicle home in either of the above situations, without having to take out a long term policy.
Drive away cover is also extremely convenient; it’s considered a form of temporary car insurance, meaning you don’t have to worry about cancelling the policy afterwards, as it will be automatically cancelled if you don’t renew it.
Another benefit to using drive away insurance is that you can take it out alongside your normal policy, so if you have just bought a car for a relative, you can take out drive away insurance safe in the knowledge that if you do have a accident on the way home, you’ll not only be covered but it won’t affect your main policy’s no-claims bonus.
So that’s my brief guide to drive away car insurance, just one extremely convenient form of short term car insurance cover available to you on the current market.
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