Continuous Insurance Enforcement - How long?

[anonymous-user]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 08 July 2025 at 20:48

[cuprabob]

For such a short period of time I very much doubt you will be fined.

[grudas]

I think you'll be absolutely fine..

[Olivergt]

Surely it depends on where the car is parked?

If it's on a private drive or in a private garage I would have thought insurance was not mandatory?

Obviously if it gets nicked, or burns to the ground, you don't have a policy to claim on. But surely there is no offence in having no insurance?

[Super Sonic]

Olivergt said:

Surely it depends on where the car is parked?

If it's on a private drive or in a private garage I would have thought insurance was not mandatory?

Obviously if it gets nicked, or burns to the ground, you don't have a policy to claim on. But surely there is no offence in having no insurance?

I think it has to be insured to be parked in a public place. If it is on your drive or in your garage it can be sorn.

[Alex_225]

If you leave it ages, as in 3-4 months then you'll possibly get a letter about it so for now I suspect it'll fine.

I can only relate forgetting to change my number plate on a car and eventually the DVLA sent me a letter saying it wasn't insured but it must have been nearly 6 months. I changed the plate on the policy and all sorted but they were treating it as uninsured based on the reg, which makes sense.

[Sheepshanks]

Olivergt said:

Surely it depends on where the car is parked?

If it's on a private drive or in a private garage I would have thought insurance was not mandatory?

Obviously if it gets nicked, or burns to the ground, you don't have a policy to claim on. But surely there is no offence in having no insurance?

As per the thread title, every car that's taxed has to be insured. The only way to avoid it is to SORN the car.

From comments I've seen elsewhere, they send a reminder after a month. It seems if you ignore that then you get a penalty.