Car Scrappage Scheme

Nuck_the_king

Hitme wrote: »

I assume you meant £4995 with scrappage? As that's what I'm being offered.

I think the OP may have reversed the 5 and 4: I'm buying the same model (down from £7695); and I think it should be £5495....

Nuck.

Tigsteroonie

Can someone explain the "waiting time" on ordering these new cars (I'm interested in the Hyundai i10) ...

I won't have been the "registered keeper" of my car until the end of February next year (was the owner but not r.k. stupidly), and I know the scrappage scheme finishes at the end of March. MOT on my current vehicle is valid until start of May.

Can I order the new car months early, to ensure getting it whilst the scheme is still running (1 March)? Even though I won't fit the criteria for the scheme until the potential delivery date?

tigerlily

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Can someone explain the "waiting time" on ordering these new cars (I'm interested in the Hyundai i10) ...

I won't have been the "registered keeper" of my car until the end of February next year (was the owner but not r.k. stupidly), and I know the scrappage scheme finishes at the end of March. MOT on my current vehicle is valid until start of May.

Can I order the new car months early, to ensure getting it whilst the scheme is still running (1 March)? Even though I won't fit the criteria for the scheme until the potential delivery date?

From what I understand you do need to have been the registered keeper of the vehicle for 12 months or more when registering for the scheme.

Nuck_the_king

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Can someone explain the "waiting time" on ordering these new cars (I'm interested in the Hyundai i10) ...

I won't have been the "registered keeper" of my car until the end of February next year (was the owner but not r.k. stupidly), and I know the scrappage scheme finishes at the end of March. MOT on my current vehicle is valid until start of May.

Can I order the new car months early, to ensure getting it whilst the scheme is still running (1 March)? Even though I won't fit the criteria for the scheme until the potential delivery date?

Tigster,

As I understand it, the whole deal is based around you meeting the criteria on the order date, not the delivery date.

I am sure that your local dealer can put you right on that; but that is my understanding. I can certainly make an order today, which won't be delivered until September, and as long as my car meets the criteria today, I will be fine. I think you will have to wait until you have been the r.k. for 12 months and just hope that the scheme is still running; but again, I would check with your dealer. They may be able to find a way around the paperwork.

However, more importantly, what happens if you make an order now, and then your old car fails its MOT before you collect your new one, or someone drives into you and writes it off, or in some other way it becomes non-MOT-able, I am not clear. I am making an order for a Hyundai i10 today; it will not be here until August / September; but I will still be driving my banger around until then.

I will ask the dealer for clarification when I go in this afternoon.

Nuck.

bluenose1

We looked at the Hyundai i10's to replace our mazda 626 and ended up ordering Hyundai i20 Comfort as my OH and eldest son are 6ft 4.
Thought the Hyundai garage was offering the best deal.
Not sure when ours will be ready but we ordered it about 3 weeks ago.

buglawton

So those of us driving around on 10+ yrs old worthless wrecks are actually carrying a £2k 'asset' (for this theoretical example). So if you get written off by someone else before you get around to doing the Scrappage deal, wonder if the Ins co. will make good some of that £2k?

artybird

buglawton wrote: »

So those of us driving around on 10+ yrs old worthless wrecks are actually carrying a £2k 'asset' (for this theoretical example). So if you get written off by someone else before you get around to doing the Scrappage deal, wonder if the Ins co. will make good some of that £2k?

Yes that's something that's suddenly making me very nervous - eleven years of not worrying about the car at all, it's so undesirable to others I haven't even worried about locking it at times. But now I've ordered a new Picanto, until it arrives I'm treating my Saxo with a new found respect, it's my little pot of gold

matthewfc

Just saw this on the Telegraph website.

"Orders placed before May 18 will be ineligible," insists at least one leading manufacturer. Any customer who had already placed an order in good faith may need to cancel that transaction and declare it void before starting afresh and completing a new set of paperwork on Monday. Better to be safe than sorry.

I have order a Picanto last week. I am assuming that the dealers don't offically order it until after the 18th but I could be wrong. Anyway I am assuming everything is fine until the Dealer tells me otherwise.

CFC

The scheme will not run till March next year I believe; I think the money will run out well before that. Lead times on small cars are getting silly; I read on a website of someone who ordered the new Ka in jan and hasn't got it yet. An interesting question is this - if you order a car with a fair old lead time, and the goverment money runs out before your car is delivered (the dealers can only claim the money off the government in arrears), what is going to happen, are the dealers going to ask for the extra 2k? Who knows!

tclci

CFC wrote: »

The scheme will not run till March next year I believe; I think the money will run out well before that.

i would think that too. The scheme thus far has done what it achieved to do. Increased sales. I know of one local dealership that has sold more cars in the past 2 wks, than they have in the last year

tclci