By Phone

• 1). Call your insurance carrier and tell it you plan to add this vehicle to your policy. If you have sold or traded in your old car, ask that it be removed from the policy.
  
  
• 2). Give your insurer the new car's vehicle identification number, or VIN, along with its make, model and year.
  
  
• 3). If the new car is being financed under a new lien holder, give your insurer the lien holder's name and contact information.
  
  
• 4). Check your mail for a copy of your insurance card. Once you get it, keep a copy in your vehicle/wallet at all times.
  
  

Online

• 1). Go to your insurance carrier's website.
  
  
• 2). Log on to your account.
  
  
• 3). Go to the link that would enable you to "add a car" or "add a driver" or "update your policy."
  
  
• 4). Enter the requested information about your new car in the appropriate fields or drop-down boxes. Examples of information asked would be your new car's VIN, make, model, and year, and lien holder information.
  
  
• 5). Remove your old car from your policy if you have sold that car or traded it in. This can usually be done by "deleting" the car from your online policy or having the primary policyholder do it under their user name. This applies if you are not the primary policyholder.
  
  
• 6). Print off a copy of your confirmation sheet and a copy of your temporary auto insurance card, and await the arrival of your permanent card--and other important policy-related documents--by mail.