Short term insurance for car that I am selling??

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Sandtree said:

Deleted_User said:

I have seen adverts for insurance just for say a person finishing a drive home (the sort you see over the urinal in service stations). That might be a possibility to insure someone for a test drive though I have never looked into these in detail, I don't know if the car must properly be insured as well?

The car must either be insured or SORNed

Where did I say otherwise?
If the OP wants to sell the car, they can take it off SORN and get a day insurance package to allow a buyer to do a test drive

Sandtree

Deleted_User said:

Sandtree said:

Deleted_User said:

I have seen adverts for insurance just for say a person finishing a drive home (the sort you see over the urinal in service stations). That might be a possibility to insure someone for a test drive though I have never looked into these in detail, I don't know if the car must properly be insured as well?

The car must either be insured or SORNed

Where did I say otherwise?
If the OP wants to sell the car, they can take it off SORN and get a day insurance package to allow a buyer to do a test drive

Where did I say you had said otherwise?

You would need to take it off SORN, buy new tax, buy new insurance and then at the end of the day reSORN it. So you’d be paying the price of the insurance plus a full months tax each day and that assumes the systems update quick enough for you to do so.

You can get day insurance that is a full policy rather than a type of add on but the OP clearly would need the full driver’s history to be able to buy the insurance. Alternatively the buyer could add it to their insurance as a TAV if they have a policy but its an element of trust for the OP that they have actually done so.

Insurance updating MID is not always instantly too so can stop you buying the car tax online the same day.

[Deleted User]

Sandtree said:

Deleted_User said:

Sandtree said:

Deleted_User said:

I have seen adverts for insurance just for say a person finishing a drive home (the sort you see over the urinal in service stations). That might be a possibility to insure someone for a test drive though I have never looked into these in detail, I don't know if the car must properly be insured as well?

The car must either be insured or SORNed

Where did I say otherwise?
If the OP wants to sell the car, they can take it off SORN and get a day insurance package to allow a buyer to do a test drive

Where did I say you had said otherwise?

You would need to take it off SORN, buy new tax, buy new insurance and then at the end of the day reSORN it. So you’d be paying the price of the insurance plus a full months tax each day and that assumes the systems update quick enough for you to do so.

You can get day insurance that is a full policy rather than a type of add on but the OP clearly would need the full driver’s history to be able to buy the insurance. Alternatively the buyer could add it to their insurance as a TAV if they have a policy but its an element of trust for the OP that they have actually done so.

Insurance updating MID is not always instantly too so can stop you buying the car tax online the same day.

Your post is written as correcting mine 
The point of the post was simply to say that a driver intending on buying the car could do that as an option if they wished
Feel free to reply so you can have the last word though I don't mind, I won't read this post any further.

Sandtree

Deleted_User said
Your post is written as correcting mine 

No, it was written with the intention of replying to yours... you had a question mark, I assumed it wasnt rhetorical. I do however agree my answer was poor as I didnt read your post properly.