Insurance for a tourist driving my car?

Winger_PL

Hi,

I'm leaving the country for a few weeks and a friend is coming over from Poland to look after the house & pets. I want her to be able to drive my (Irish-reg) car while she's here, now how do I do that, any ideas? Tried googling for a while with no joy.
She has a car in Poland and she's insured there - is it possible for her to use that insurance for driving around here (if her insurance company allows that, of course)?
She's not a resident here.

Any help much appreciated.

phog

Surely, it's a case of ringing your insurance company and adding the said person as a named driver to your policy.

Winger_PL

That would work apart from the fact that she's not a resident here, theoretically I could lie to the insurance company but I'm looking for a proper way here.

Mr Benevolent

I doubt a Irish insurance company will insure a non-resident on your car for a few weeks, and if they do it'll cost quite a lot. Best way is to ring your broker/ins company.

flyingsnail

Winger_PL wrote: »

That would work apart from the fact that she's not a resident here, theoretically I could lie to the insurance company but I'm looking for a proper way here.

I have done it before with somebody from Australia with no problems.

Bandara

I've added a US resident to my insurance while they were on holidays here.

Simply rang my insurance company and had them added, minimum period was a month and it cost me €70. All the insurance company wanted was the persons details and a copy of their driving license from their own country faxed into them

PaddyFagan

As for some of the other posters done this for South African visiters before - no issue (as side from a small charge) getting my insurers to add them to the policy.

kildare.17hmr

Hammertime wrote: »

I've added a US resident to my insurance while they were on holidays here.

Simply rang my insurance company and had them added, minimum period was a month and it cost me €70. All the insurance company wanted was the persons details and a copy of their driving license from their own country faxed into them

+ 1, my uncle from aus and it was 70 euro for the month too

Winger_PL

Thanks for the info, it did work, 73 quid to get her insured for 3 weeks.

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stevenmu

The "DoneDeal" effect.