Car Scrappage Scheme

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vtony wrote: »

everythings light as a feather turns round on a sixpence and you can park in gaps where others cant get.
interior is like the tardis, the more i drive it the more i like it you cant go wrong.

Yep, I second that. I have a Micra and a Matiz, the Micra is in good nick but is 13 years old and is going for scrappage. I seriously considered getting another Matiz but husband thought having two cars the same was too boring so we went for the i10. Matiz is an excellent city car. The power steering on mine is so light I can literally steer with two fingers, fantastic for pocket parking. And as vtony says, what is quite amazing is the amount you can pack into it.

emmsa76

bellrooster wrote: »

Oh yes, and out of interest, who has ordered an i10 and got their hands on it? I know it's one of (if not THE) most popular car in the scrappage scheme?

Collected my i10 today, I live in Birmingham and had to drive to Bushey Heath (Watford) to get it though. But what a joy it is to drive

mintster

buglawton wrote: »

Be patient, they are having to add shifts in Korea and the Czech republic!

Not being impatient but I ordered my car on the 11th May and apparently the car was already in the UK!!!!!

bellrooster

emmsa76 wrote: »

Collected my i10 today, I live in Birmingham and had to drive to Bushey Heath (Watford) to get it though. But what a joy it is to drive

I am several shades of green with jealousy

hethmar

kento wrote: »

Very strange - I'm perplexed also. It's simple enough putting petrol into a diesel car. What type of car was it? But putting diesel into a petrol car, now that is difficult because the nozzle is too big to fit in.

Cant remember, it wasnt very big and it clearly had TDI on the back of it though

chalkie99

Have e-mailed the scrappage team but no reply as yet - any ideas roughly how long they normally take to respond?

freightexec2009

memmsy wrote: »

cool, ok thanks, will email them.

I think also if your insurance company are nice enough people, some do not charge to change details over or named drivers? Could you not also just insure for the time period until you get car, ie they usually do yearly quotes maybe you could get paperwork through just to cover you short term? Surely that's all they need. Plus I think insurance wise, just to double ensure you are the owner, and like previously stated dealers are covering there bums at the moment

mintster

chalkie99 wrote: »

Have e-mailed the scrappage team but no reply as yet - any ideas roughly how long they normally take to respond?

Took around 4 working days for them to reply to me - you can call the number I put up a few posts back.

memmsy

freightexec2009 wrote: »

I think also if your insurance company are nice enough people, some do not charge to change details over or named drivers? Plus I think insurance wise, just to double ensure you are the owner, and like previously stated dealers are covering there bums at the moment

Quite right! Insurance have changed shedule details for free - and I got a swift response from the governement scrappage email address listed....

"In order to be eligible for the scheme, first the registered keeper must be the registered keeper of the old vehicle continuously for the proceeding 12 calendar months before the order of the date of the new vehicle. Second, the old vehicle must have valid MOT, tax and insurance. It is not a requirement of the scheme to have a named insurance policy, as long as the old vehicle is insured at the time of placing the order. Based on the information you have provided the dealer is providing you with incorrect advise. If the dealer claims to have received this advise from the Manufacturer then I suggest you ask him to contact the Manufacturers Scrappage Scheme Manager to seek clarification"

So yes I'm certain the dealer is covering its bum - however all is now sorted.

thanks for all your help.

Emma

chalkie99

chalkie99 wrote: »

Can anyone advise on this please?:

We have a 12 year old vehicle (small van) purchased new 12 years ago and certainly eligible for the scheme.

The problem is that we purchased it as a sole trader non vat reg business and have recently become a Ltd vat reg business. (Director is same name as current owner and same address).

If we were to purchase a new small van and put the registered keeper as identical to that shown on the old V5 can we get an invoice issued in the Ltd co name to enable us to reclaim the vat, etc.

One dealer has told us we "probably" can and another has said definitely not.

Quoting my own post here :whistle:

Now had the answer back from the official site and, in case it's of any use to anyone else, it is permissable to buy the vehicle in the company name as long as the log book shows the original registered keeper. :j