Dayinsure to buy tax?

[Guv]

I thought the answer to this was always 'no'.

However, just been looking on dayinsure.com and it says

Can I buy Road Tax with a dayinsure policy?
Yes. dayinsure short term insurance is suitable. (At the sole discretion of the individual post office and we cannot guarentee that it will be acceptable)

Has anyone used dayinsure to buy tax? were the post office ok with it?

Thanks

 

[uk_viper]

Hmm, quite a lot of them I've seen said no, but then again, all is explained in the brackets

 

[Lashout_UK]

I've used Tempcover forms, effectively the same thing, to do just that and had no problems - depends on your local PO or staff member though it seems. No reason IIRC for them to reject it though!

A few times they've gone "gosh, is this just for the day" or "my, this expires tomorrow!". I usually just tell them it's so it can be test driven or moved and they're fine with it...

 

[eatcustard]

Why dont you want a years insurance?

 

[matt_fsr]

It varies from Post Office to post office. In a big, modern, shiny town centre post office the answer was a definite no, meaning we technically couldnt drive the car home as it wasnt taxed.

In the end we had to, and got it taxed under the same temporary insurance at a local post office. However, it caused so much stress and hassle that I will never again buy an untaxed car.

 

[atpbx]

I find a lot of post offices dont know anything when it comes to issuing road tax.

You can get a flat refusal to serve you a tax disc at a post office, go online five minutes later and get one no problems from the website.

 

[Guv]

Thanks for the replies. Decided not to risk spending money on a days insurance to get refused at the post office and borrowed a car instead.
I tried calling the post office to ask and they didn't really have a clue.. not if that would have worked in my favour or not!

Why dont you want a years insurance?

Got a years insurance but certificate hasn't arrived yet and tax is needed.

 

[aproctor]

Just get it online.

I think you have 5 days grace, but that might be if you have an old tax disc iirc.

 

[eatcustard]

Thanks for the replies. Decided not to risk spending money on a days insurance to get refused at the post office and borrowed a car instead.
I tried calling the post office to ask and they didn't really have a clue.. not if that would have worked in my favour or not!



Got a years insurance but certificate hasn't arrived yet and tax is needed.

then get your tax disk off the interweb

 

[Agent_Smith357]

then get your tax disk off the interweb

Then it will arive to the previous owners house if he has just bought the car.

 

[Guv]

then get your tax disk off the interweb

Then it will arive to the previous owners house if he has just bought the car.

Exactly, new (2nd hand) car.
Can't tax online anyway until the new v5 arrives as the document ref from the green part of the old v5 can't be used online

 

[eidolon]

Has anyone used dayinsure to buy tax? were the post office ok with it?

Yep, I did it once. Post office didn't question it at all.

 

[Alibaba99]

Day insure should be acceptable as the car only needs valid insurance on the day that the tax is purchased if the month has already started.

Are they complaining about using a print out of the insurance certificate pdf? Again this should be okay as the restrictions (currently) only apply to photo copies and faxes of the documents.

 

[Sone]

i found if you use glossy paper you have far less issues with the post office if printing yourself

 

[[TW]Fox]

Got a years insurance but certificate hasn't arrived yet and tax is needed.

Tax it online?

 

[Joshy]

Tax it online?

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