Insurance to release vehicle from car pound

thenudeone

bennyowen wrote: »

Staffs at the Car Pound said Switchcover does not allow its insurance certificate to be used for releasing seized vehicle.

It is a complex situation because some insurance certificates are accepted while some others are not - unfairness and inequality encouraged.

What the pound staff probably meant was that if someone has insured a different vehicle with Swiftcover, then any "Driving Other Cars" cover provided can't be used to recover any other vehicle.

It's only in the last few years that the Insurance industry agreed a form of words which put this restriction on DOC cover, to prevent abuse. Some insurers might still offer DOC cover without such a restriction, in which case those certificates could be used to recover a different vehicle.

If you have taken out a Swiftcover policy on the vehicle, then that certificate can be used to recover that vehicle.

mikey72

This Policy may not be used to secure the release of a motor vehicle, other than the vehicle identified above by its registration mark, which has been seized by, or on behalf of, any government or public authority




None will yet you have the car if you try to use the any doc extension.
All should let you recover the car insured though.

Example from mine with Axa.

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Wig

It sounds like you presented a swindlecover certificate which identified your previous car as being insured...

If you changed the cover to identify the new car registration and printed out the certificate and it does have the new car registration they should accept it as being covered....

If you come back please explain exactly what certificate you used to recover your car and what registration was showing as the insured car on the certificate.