We now insure vans!
Products
Our Products
FirstDirect Car Share Insurance
FirstDirect Temporary Car Insurance
FirstDirect Top Up Cover
FirstDirect Business Use Only Insurance
FirstDirect Impounded Vehicle Insurance
FirstDirect Temporary Van Insurance
FirstDirect Car Share Insurance
If you’ve got a Full UK licence and want to borrow a vehicle that’s already insured then this product can help.
Great value comprehensive cover, available from 1 hour to 28 days.
Prices start from £7 per hour, £11 per day, £90 per month.
Perfect for:
- borrowing an insured vehicle from family/friends
- sharing driving on a long trip
- borrowing a larger car to move a piece of furniture
FirstDirect Temporary Car Insurance
Available to drivers with a Full UK licence.
In either Owned or Borrowed cars.
Comprehensive cover with an Excess from £250 to £1000 (your Excess will be clearly shown in your quotation).
Choose your duration: from 1 hour to 28 days.
Prices start from £10 for 1 hour, £15 for 1 day, £120 for 1 month.
Perfect for:
- taking a test drive in a car you’re hoping to buy
- buying a few days cover whilst you sell a car
- borrowing a car for a few hours/days/weeks
FirstDirect Top Up Cover
Got a full licence and your own insurance policy and want to borrow a car?
If you have Driving Other Cars cover on your own policy it will typically provide Third Party Only cover on the borrowed car.
Our innovative policy will sit alongside this Third Party cover and provide Vehicle Damage only cover.
So that the two policies will dovetail, between them giving you comprehensive cover.
Prices start from £4 per hour, £8 per day, £40 per month
Perfect for:
- making sure you’re fully insured if you borrow a car
FirstDirect Business Use Only Insurance
If you’ve:
- got a Full UK licence and your own car
- and you’re insured for Social Domestic and Pleasure Use, and maybe Commuting,
- but you need a day or a few days Occasional Business Use
then this could be the answer.
Our policy sits alongside your annual policy and provides Comprehensive cover just whilst you use the vehicle for business.
Once the business use has finished, cover reverts back to the annual insurer.
Prices start from £5 per hour, £8 per day, £60 per month
Perfect for:
- attending an external training course, seminar or site visit
- drivers who work from home but occasionally visit clients/suppliers
FirstDirect Impounded Vehicle Insurance
If the worst happens and you find your vehicle impounded, you need to move quickly.
Our Impounded Vehicle Insurance can be arranged online in minutes and provides 28 days of Third Party Only cover.
Giving you time to remove your vehicle from the impound and to put more permanent insurance arrangements in place.
Prices start from £250 for 28 days.
Perfect for:
- getting your car out of the compound quickly and easily
FirstDirect Temporary Van Insurance
All the ease and convenience of FirstDirect Temporary Insurance – now available for Vans as well as Cars!
Comprehensive cover for borrowed or lent vans available by the hour, day , week or month
Our cover includes Social Domestic and Pleasure use, plus Commuting, plus use in connection with the policyholder’s business (excluding the carriage of passengers or goods for hire or reward)
Prices start from £12 for 1 hour, £18 for 1 day, £150 for 1 month
All policies include free breakdown cover (away from the home address)
Perfect for:
- Drivers aged between 25 and 70
- Who are UK residents and have held a full UK licence for at least a year
- And are looking to borrow a van with a Gross Vehicle Weight of 3.5 tonnes or less
Ideal for many uses : such as borrowing a van to move a piece of furniture, or to drive grown-up kids to university/college, or just to borrow a set of ladders!
Not suitable for policyholders who are unemployed or are employed in one of the following professions: entertainment, professional sport, courier, taxi driver, parcel delivery, food delivery
Our Insurer
FirstDirect are delighted to be working in partnership with ERS – please see https://www.ers.com
ERS are the UK’s largest specialist motor insurer with an A+ rating from Lloyds and have been providing motor insurance in the UK for over 70 years.
ERS will underwrite all of FirstDirect products and handle claims through their claims hotline – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For general information, please contact
© 2025 GoFirstDirect. All rights reserved.