If you need to take out car insurance for a week, a few weeks or even a month or two, you can also buy temporary car insurance. This provides cover on a short-term basis and can be useful if you are borrowing a friend’s car for a week, or your son/daughter is home from university and wants to use your car for the holidays. If you need insurance for even longer than this, it may be more cost-effective to take out an annual policy and then cancel it when you no longer need it. Keep in mind you’ll need to pay a cancellation fee so it’s worth comparing the cost of this against the cost of a temporary policy to see which works out cheaper.