Weekly car insurance

There are all sorts of situations where one week car insurance is the best choice. Many drivers choose weekly cover when they’re borrowing someone else’s for pleasure, helping their neighbours or community, or because of an unexpected emergency means they have to quickly drive another vehicle.

Insuring your car for a week is also ideal if your child needs insurance to drive when back from university, or you’ve bought a new car and want to avoid the cost of making a mid-term adjustment to an existing policy.

In those situations, and many more, it makes sense to just pay for the cover you need. Some of the most common occasions when people get a 7 day car insurance from us are:

• When borrowing a car for a week
• When driving for an emergency
• When your car is in for repairs
• Students home from university looking for temp car insurance for students
• When you’re moving house
• When going on a driving holiday
• When test-driving a new car
• After buying a new car
• When lending your car to your kids

If you need to get car insurance for two, three or even four weeks you can simply buy one week policies as and when you need them.

Because of this flexibility, even when you don’t know exactly how long you need cover for, if your plans change it’s quick and easy to buy another policy.

If you know you need cover for two weeks, three weeks or more in advance then you can take out different policies at the same time and just set the start dates so they run one after the other, or buy monthly car insurance for the whole period.

The Motor Insurance Database (MID) is the national database for insured vehicles and it’s what insurers and authorities use to check that car insurance is in place.

When you purchase a one week car insurance policy from Tempcover, your details will be uploaded to the MID. While we do update the database daily, it can take up to seven days for the details to appear when you search for them online.

As you may guess, with a weekly car insurance policy it’s very likely that either your details appear after your policy has started, or your policy may have even expired by the time they appear on the database.

You may be worried that this means you’re not properly insured but don’t worry, we can assure you that if you’ve purchased a policy and have received your certificate of insurance, you’re covered.

To be safe, we recommend you keep a copy of your certificate of insurance with you. You can either print it out or keep the digital copy on your phone.

Not sure 7 day car insurance or weekly cover is the right option for you? First, remember you can effectively get a 2-week or 3-week car insurance policy by getting additional 1-week car insurance policies.

If that’s still not right, fortunately, short term car insurance is flexible by its very nature. You’ll find our panel of insurers offer all sorts of policies – everything from one hour car insurance through to daily car insurance and weekend car insurance right up to one month’s car insurance at any one time. The duration can be as long or short as you need it to be!