About tempinsuranceuk.com
Temporary vehicle insurance, and nothing else.
Tempinsuranceuk.com is built for the driver who needs cover for an hour, a day or a few weeks, not a year. One place to understand short-term cover, check who qualifies, and start a quote with an FCA-authorised broker.
Why tempinsuranceuk.com exists
Short-Term Cover Deserves Its Own Site
Most insurance websites are built around the annual policy and keep temporary cover in a corner. The people who need it are usually standing next to a car with somewhere to be.
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Short-term cover is usually needed in a hurry
Borrowing a car for the weekend, driving home one you have just bought, a van for a move. The annual insurers treat it as an afterthought; here it is the whole site.
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One product, understood properly
Every page covers one length of cover, one vehicle or one situation, with the eligibility, the published starting price and the rules that apply, so the right page answers the whole question.
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Plain English, with the law behind it
The guides explain tax, the Motor Insurance Database, borrowed cars and seized vehicles from the legislation and GOV.UK, with every source listed and every page dated.
Our specialist approach
What Doing One Thing Properly Looks Like
The site is written to a published set of rules and reviewed by a named person, so that what it says about cover, eligibility and the law can be trusted and checked.
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Every short-term need in one place
Cars from one hour to 28 days, vans, learner drivers, motorhomes, couriers, taxis and impounded vehicles, each with its own page rather than a line on a generic one.
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The registration first
The reg box sits in the first screen of every page, on a phone as well as a desktop, because most people arrive knowing exactly which car they mean.
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Product facts from the insurers’ criteria
Ages, licences and vehicle limits come from the insurers’ own eligibility criteria, which the broker publishes and which vary by insurer. Starting prices are the broker’s published from-prices, with the quote period they are based on.
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Guides written from the rules
Each guide starts from the legislation or the official guidance, names its sources under the article, and is reviewed before it is published.
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A named person behind every page
The TIUK Editorial Team writes the pages and Chris Richards reviews each one. Both have a page that says who they are.
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Published standards, and corrections when we are wrong
The claims the site will not make, the sources it uses and how an error is fixed are set out in the editorial standards, and readers who spot a mistake get it corrected.
Editorial standards
Reviewed by Chris Richards
Founder, Tempinsuranceuk.com
Chris Richards is the founder of Tempinsuranceuk.com and the man behind SimplyQuote. He reviews every guide on this site before it is published.
How our partnership works
Three Parts, Each Done by the Right Firm
We are the introduction, not the insurance. The quote, the policy and the price come from GoShorty, a UK insurance broker authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, and the cover is underwritten by its insurers.
- 1 tempinsuranceuk.com
You start here
Read the page for your situation, check the eligibility and the published starting price, and enter the registration. That is our part: the explanation and the introduction.
- 2 GoShorty
The broker quotes and arranges
GoShorty asks about the driver, the vehicle and the dates, prices the policy with its insurers, takes payment and issues the certificate, usually within minutes.
- 3 The insurer
The insurer underwrites
The policy is underwritten by the insurer named on the certificate, which pays any claim. Changes, cancellations and policy questions go to the broker.
Why GoShorty
GoShorty is a trading style of Complex to Clear Group Limited, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under reference 751221. It specialises in exactly the cover this site is about, from 1 hour to 28 days, issues the certificate within minutes of payment, and reports every policy to the Motor Insurance Database four times a day. Its customers’ reviews are on Trustpilot.
In partnership with GoShorty
What being in partnership with GoShorty means GoShorty is a trading style of Complex to Clear Group Limited (company 05044963), a UK insurance broker authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under reference 751221.We may be paid a fee if you take out a policy after being introduced by this website. We do not provide advice or make recommendations, and we are not an insurer or a broker.
How we are paid
Using the site costs you nothing. We may be paid a fee by GoShorty when someone takes out a policy after being introduced by us. It does not change the price you are quoted.
That fee is the only commercial interest on the site, and it is why the guides are written to published rules rather than to sell: a page that leaves someone driving uninsured is the one outcome the site is designed to prevent.
Company and regulatory information
Who We Are, in the Terms the Regulator Uses
The plain version: tempinsuranceuk.com is an introducer. We are not an insurer and not a broker, we do not give advice, and we do not arrange cover. Here is the formal version, and where to check it.
Who we are
TempQuote is a trading style of Simply Quote Comparison Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 15008284. Registered office: Sentinel House, Ancells Business Park, Harvest Crescent, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UZ. ICO registration ZB659587.
Simply Quote Comparison Ltd is an Introducer Appointed Representative (FCA reference number 1011184) of Seopa Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA FRN 313860). Seopa Ltd is located at Floor 4, Blackstaff Studios, 8-10 Amelia Street, Belfast, BT2 7GS.
Who arranges your cover
Temporary insurance quotes and policies are provided by GoShorty, a trading style of Complex to Clear Group Limited, registered in England and Wales under company number 05044963 and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA FRN 751221).
We introduce you to GoShorty and their panel of insurers, who arrange the policy, set the price and handle any claim. We are not an insurer or an insurance broker, and we do not give advice or recommend a policy. We may be paid a fee if you take out a policy after being introduced by us, at no cost to you.
The basis for the introduction
The introduction this site makes to GoShorty is made as an Introducer Appointed Representative of Seopa Ltd (FCA reference number 1011184). An introducer appointed representative may introduce customers and pass on certain marketing material, and nothing more.
What that means we never do
- Insure you, or underwrite anything
- Advise you, or recommend one policy over another
- Compare brokers or rank one firm against another
- Arrange, sell or administer the policy
- Take your payment or card details
If anything on this site reads as though it is doing one of those, it is a mistake and we would like to hear about it through the contact page.
Check it yourself
Anyone asking for your details should be willing to be checked. Every registration this page relies on is on a public register.
- Simply Quote Comparison Ltd Company 15008284 Companies House
- Introducer Appointed Representative FCA reference 1011184 Financial Services Register
- Seopa Ltd, our principal FCA FRN 313860 Financial Services Register
- GoShorty, the broker FCA FRN 751221 Financial Services Register
- Data protection ICO registration ZB659587 ICO register
Registered office: Sentinel House, Ancells Business Park, Harvest Crescent, Fleet, Hampshire, GU51 2UZ. Simply Quote Comparison Ltd also runs SimplyQuote.co.uk and other comparison brands; TempQuote is a trading style of the same company, not a separate business.
Questions about the website or how your introduction was handled come to us through the contact page. Questions about a quote or a policy go to the broker. The privacy policy explains what happens to the details you enter.
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In partnership with GoShorty
What being in partnership with GoShorty means GoShorty is a trading style of Complex to Clear Group Limited (company 05044963), a UK insurance broker authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under reference 751221.We may be paid a fee if you take out a policy after being introduced by this website. We do not provide advice or make recommendations, and we are not an insurer or a broker.