Wrong Reg number on insurance Cert
Discussion
Just purchased another car on Thursday and arranged the insurance over the phone.
Have received the docs this morning, and checked them through, they have the incorrect registration number quoted, they have put PR04 instead of RR04.
Tried to call them this morning, but the office is shut as they don't open on weekends.
Does this mean that I am not insured?
What would be the position if I got stopped?
Is it best not to use the car until I can get hold of them and get it changed.
I really wanted to use it to take to a show over the weekend, but not sure whether I would be covered and legal.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Have received the docs this morning, and checked them through, they have the incorrect registration number quoted, they have put PR04 instead of RR04.
Tried to call them this morning, but the office is shut as they don't open on weekends.
Does this mean that I am not insured?
What would be the position if I got stopped?
Is it best not to use the car until I can get hold of them and get it changed.
I really wanted to use it to take to a show over the weekend, but not sure whether I would be covered and legal.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Assuming that the insurance company would confirm that you have/had cover, then you are not committing an offence.
If the car is parked on the road, you're still committing the offence, just less likely to get stopped.
Your car won't be on the database however so is quite likely to get a pull.
I take it that the certificate and the quote cover the right kind of car (i.e., PR04 isn't a Micra and RR04 isn't a 911).
If the car is parked on the road, you're still committing the offence, just less likely to get stopped.
Your car won't be on the database however so is quite likely to get a pull.
I take it that the certificate and the quote cover the right kind of car (i.e., PR04 isn't a Micra and RR04 isn't a 911).
shep1001 said:
Send them an email as a written record of their clerical error now & sort it Monday when the office is open. MSM?
Hi Andy, it's Mannings.Edited by shep1001 on Saturday 23 August 10:13
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It's a factory Red Rose and the Number plate is RR04 but they have put PR04 on the Cert.
I really want to take it to the tvrcc event at Blemheim palace this weekend, but not sure whether to risk it or not now.
I got pulled for the same thing a couple of months ago - the car came up as uninsured on anpr. I spent 10 mins sat in the front of the officers unmarked BMW whilst he called the insurance who confirmed that I was covered and that it was just a clerical error on their part.
He then went on to show me a video of myself doing 98mph (I was in a C63 on a very quiet stretch of dual carriageway so I was lucky it wasn't much much faster)
but went to tell me it was my lucky day as he was trialling some new kind of speed detection thing in his car so he wouldn't be doing me this time but to take more care in future
He then went on to show me a video of myself doing 98mph (I was in a C63 on a very quiet stretch of dual carriageway so I was lucky it wasn't much much faster)
but went to tell me it was my lucky day as he was trialling some new kind of speed detection thing in his car so he wouldn't be doing me this time but to take more care in future 
CYMR0 said:
Assuming that the insurance company would confirm that you have/had cover, then you are not committing an offence.
If the car is parked on the road, you're still committing the offence, just less likely to get stopped.
Your car won't be on the database however so is quite likely to get a pull.
I take it that the certificate and the quote cover the right kind of car (i.e., PR04 isn't a Micra and RR04 isn't a 911).
Good points (though how do you stop a parked car? If the car is parked on the road, you're still committing the offence, just less likely to get stopped.
Your car won't be on the database however so is quite likely to get a pull.
I take it that the certificate and the quote cover the right kind of car (i.e., PR04 isn't a Micra and RR04 isn't a 911).
) If the insurers have the wrong reg. no. then they are insuring a completely different car for a premium appropriate to that car and not the correct one. Idiots! But the customer always gets it in the neck. Dogwatch said:
Good points (though how do you stop a parked car? ) If the insurers have the wrong reg. no. then they are insuring a completely different car for a premium appropriate to that car and not the correct one. Idiots! But the customer always gets it in the neck.
Ot possibly they have just types the wrong letter. ) If the insurers have the wrong reg. no. then they are insuring a completely different car for a premium appropriate to that car and not the correct one. Idiots! But the customer always gets it in the neck. Not all systems to issue certificates will link into the DVLA database.
Dogwatch said:
If the insurers have the wrong reg. no. then they are insuring a completely different car for a premium appropriate to that car and not the correct one.
Rubbishthe OP will be insured for the car details he provided to the insurance company , its a simple clerical error which can be sorted on Monday , he may get tugged but once the situation was explained he'd be allowed on his way
dingg said:
Dogwatch said:
If the insurers have the wrong reg. no. then they are insuring a completely different car for a premium appropriate to that car and not the correct one.
Rubbishthe OP will be insured for the car details he provided to the insurance company , its a simple clerical error which can be sorted on Monday , he may get tugged but once the situation was explained he'd be allowed on his way
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