Can you insure a car that is not owned by you??

[nickvw]

Basically i was thinking of buying a cheap mk3 gti as a runabout for 6 months and my mates has offered to let me use his if i just insure and tax it.

I tried swift cover and adrian flux yesterday and neither will insure me because i'm not the owner or registered keeper.

Has anyone done this before?

[barrym381]

could you not get your mate to insure it an stick you on the policy ?? shouldnt be to expensive

[nickvw]

I could but he is already using his ncb on his mk5 gti so think it would work out too expensive., i've tried afew places this morning and no joy think i might just buy my own and have done with it.

[curtis1993]

people will probs judge me for this but oh well .. when i borrowed a friends corsa for 2 months i just said that i was the regestered keep and put my name on the green slip of the v5 just incase anything came of it :/

[vw spur]

i have give my old mk4 golf gt tdi to my sisiter and its still in my name and she has got insured on it no problem, she jsut declared she was not the registered keeper and gave my name