£2000 scrappage & motability.

harveybobbles

My Mother in Law has been awarded (after a long battle) with higher rate DLA, both components. Which means she qualifies for a car on the Motability scam, sorry, I mean scheme...

Anyway - with this £2000 scrappage deal - would her 10 year old Fiesta with 19,000 miles on it be allowed to be used with Motability or is it just for Jo Public to use?

It seems a shame to scrap her car cos it's a nice 'un...!

Pete268

Speaking as someone who lost one leg and part of the other whilst serving in Iraq and now pay a good part of my war pension to use the motability scheme - I find it particularly crass of you to refer to Motability as a scam.

In any case, in answer to your question, if she is looking at purchasing a car using Motability Hire Purchase then she can make use of the scrappage scheme.

If she is looking to lease a car on the scheme then no, she cannot use the scrappage scheme.

Link here: http://www.motabilitycarscheme.co.uk/main.cfm?Type=CSGS

Peter

harveybobbles

I'm in the Motor Trade, so I see the rougher side of MFL is what I was referring to.

Anyway, the MIL will be using her DLA for the car, which gets replaced every three years etc.

cyclonebri1

Pete268 wrote: »

Speaking as someone who lost one leg and part of the other whilst serving in Iraq and now pay a good part of my war pension to use the motability scheme - I find it particularly crass of you to refer to Motability as a scam.

In any case, in answer to your question, if she is looking at purchasing a car using Motability Hire Purchase then she can make use of the scrappage scheme.

If she is looking to lease a car on the scheme then no, she cannot use the scrappage scheme.

Link here: http://www.motabilitycarscheme.co.uk/main.cfm?Type=CSGS

Peter

Peter, I don't think Harvey meant any offence?

He was I asume referring to the fact as has been well debated on here, that the Motability scheme is not as charitable as they make out, the point being it is possible to finance a similar deal yourself for less:money:
Handing over the pension or DLA is not the best for everyone, just quite often the simplest;)

devizes18193

possably would if you brought the car instead of leaseing?

movingforward2010

harveybobbles wrote: »

I'm in the Motor Trade, so I see the rougher side of MFL is what I was referring to.

Anyway, the MIL will be using her DLA for the car, which gets replaced every three years etc.

surley if your in the motor trade you would now all about the question you've asked

harveybobbles

devizes18193 wrote: »

possably would if you brought the car instead of leaseing?

Yes, if you get the car on HP via Smackability, then yes, the £2000 scrappage applies.

harveybobbles

wxmlad wrote: »

surley if your in the motor trade you would now all about the question you've asked

No, I work in the used car side of things. Hence why I asked on here...