GoShorty Impound Release Insurance

We now offer Impound Release Insurance, allowing you to purchase cover in under 2 minutes, with instant start available.

What’s the purpose of Impound Release Insurance?

The purpose of an Impound Release policy is to allow the vehicle owner to recover a vehicle from a Police or local authority impound following its seizure. In many cases, the types of clients that have had vehicles impounded represent a higher risk to insurers, so the cover offered by the impound product is intentionally set as the minimum cover required to meet the requirements of the impound, to release the vehicle to its owner.

Key details of the cover provided are as follows:

• 30 day fixed policy
• Policy holders aged 24 –
• Third Party Only
• Insured driver
• The insured must be the registered owner of the vehicle, or if the vehicle is owned by a lease company they must be the registered keeper and must be able to provide evidence to the impound that they hold a lease in their name for the
• No policy amendments
• No refund in the event of a
• No foreign use

Acceptance under the scheme is wide, with no UK mainland postcode declined, plus no limit of current penalty points on a licence, provided a valid licence is still held, with a maximum of 10 previous claims over a 5 year period also accepted.