AIBU to have lost my car insurance details?

[FanGurrl]

I can't for the life of me remember who my car insurance is with - have trawled through emails etc but can't find it.
Does anyone know a way of tracing this? I know it is insured and roughly when renewal is due, but no idea who it is with

Did you use any comparison websites when buying your car insurance? If you did it might still be in your saved or past quotes.

Can you go back through your bank statement and find the payment?

Do you not get your documents online?

I think the DVLA will have this information as you’ll have needed to provide proof of insurance when you taxed the car?

Have you searched using the word policy in your email search bar?

How did you pay? Bank statement perhaps?

The name should be on your insurance disc.

What's an insurance disc?

@gabsdot45 what's an insurance disk? It's a certificate of insurance in the U.K., and mine was downloaded from an email

Discs became obsolete in UK years ago! There is a database of insured vehicles. How would you have paid?

This has been a huge problem for us too..wish they post the insurance out still.

Check your bank statement.

They were for road tax anyway.

True, but you could not get one without proof of insurance.

Vehicle excise duty

I did this. I had to check bank statements to find out.

No but it had no info on it as to who the insurer was which is the op's dilemma.

motor insurance database:

www.mib.org.uk/managing-insurance-data/the-motor-insurance-database-mid/public-access/

This will only show whether the vehicle has insurance, not who the insurer is. The insurer can can request this information when trying to trace a third party following an incident, that facility isn’t available to the public.

Suggestions of looking back over bank statements are good. If you know who you were insured with in previous years that insurer may have made a note of which company you moved to.

Thanks everyone, it was paid in full so I think bank statements is the way to go. My online banking doesn't go back that far but I think I can request further statements.
Have recently changed phone and somehow lost a bit of info!

Check emails for the word policy. If that fails try certificate, if that fails try motor.

And yes, bank statements or credit card statements.

@londonrach So true! My new resolution is to print out docs and keep a paper copy!

@saraclara Thanks, will give 'policy' a go, I've tried the others already!

False.

"Your insurance history
If you have lost your certificate of insurance or want to know what information is held on the Motor Insurance Database (MID). This data is held for 7 years"

No, it says specifically it’s to find out who your insurance is with.