Ex motability vehicles - why or why not ?

cardinalbiggles

My parents got me a Fiat Panda for my 21st, was a 1.1 with CVT. Ex-motability had 6k on the clock and was 2 years old. All manuals still in their wrappers. I think it was about £2,300 from the dealer.

I did 130k trouble free miles in that car and only used 2 sets of tyres! Saw me through uni and my first job, was commuting 130miles a day for 6 months in it as well.

I suspect there are good ones and bad ones but I wouldnt let it put you off too much.

property.advert

It is an auto that I want. There could be one in the frame but it has come just a little quick for me.

bigbulldog

I have to agree and disagree with a few of the comments as we have a motobility car BMW 3 series coupe and it is treated like we own it serviced when required washed and cleaned once a fortnight and it still looks like new and is coming upto 3 years old and due to be changed also dont forget they all get serviced at the main dealers plus if they need new tyres etc there automaticly replaced,so they should have a full dealer service history which makes me wonder how many privately owned 3 year old cars now have that .

Any second hand car purchase needs to be checked out properly not just motobility cars.:)

property.advert

bigbulldog wrote: »

I have to agree and disagree with a few of the comments as we have a motobility car BMW 3 series coupe and it is treated like we own it serviced when required washed and cleaned once a fortnight and it still looks like new and is coming upto 3 years old and due to be changed also dont forget they all get serviced at the main dealers plus if they need new tyres etc there automaticly replaced,so they should have a full dealer service history which makes me wonder how many privately owned 3 year old cars now have that .

Any second hand car purchase needs to be checked out properly not just motobility cars.:)

Would you mind explaining where your car goes to and the trail (of the old car) as you see it, once you decide to change. That would be very helpful.

bigbulldog

I might be wrong here,but if we were to choose another BMW I would of thought the dealer would have it on its forecourt for sale as the mileage would be under 30k as to switching to another manufacturer I don't know.

harveybobbles

property.advert wrote: »

Would you mind explaining where your car goes to and the trail (of the old car) as you see it, once you decide to change. That would be very helpful.

When its getting close to the end of the three year deal, the original selling dealer gets first chance to buy the ar. If they dont want it, it gets offered to other dealers, ie bmw in this example. If none of them want it then it gets offered to dealers like me. And if we dont want it then it gets binned off to the auctions.

property.advert

harveybobbles wrote: »

When its getting close to the end of the three year deal, the original selling dealer gets first chance to buy the ar. If they dont want it, it gets offered to other dealers, ie bmw in this example. If none of them want it then it gets offered to dealers like me. And if we dont want it then it gets binned off to the auctions.

Thanks for that.

Is there a register or database, whether open only to certain people or not, which collates this data and which could, theoretically, be used to pre match customer to car ?

I know what I want but it would help no end to do away with some of the searching. At the moment all I can think of is to contact a dealer who offers motability on the make I want and hope they have one coming back to them or one they can match to my requirements. However, I fear they would want to slap on more than a little earner when in reality, there is no real work to be done.

Everyone has to eat and I'll happily give all businesses some profit but I'm not the customer to pay for their gold plated taps etc.

bigjl

property.advert, why don't you just go and buy a car, I know this site is about saving money, but in life those in the know will get these cars for less than you the customer, if you want a car as cheap as possible then go to an auction, but the reason for the cheaper prices is that you have little comeback, the car trade is a multibillion pound industry, you are not part of that industry so you aren't going to get access to the premium stock that you want to find, CG isn't going to tell you where they get their stock from, large lease companies aren't going to "do you a one off deal".

Would you do your job for free, no, neither would I, you seem to want to eat for free, but also have cavier and champagne, if you want to find a specific car as cheap as possible, then look at British Car Auctions and subscribe to Auctionview, you would then be able to search for a specific car, even select just motability cars, then travel to the auction on the day, and bid for it.

You seem very quick to infer that you are intellectuall superior to the staff at a car dealer such as CG, as you have said in a different thread, and accuse a massive company of bait & switch without evidence, or even visiting their premises.

The used cartrade is a little more comlpicated than you seem to think it is, it is sometimes likened to the stock market, and they really are fairly similiar, basically just buying and selling, some buy cars in bulk at a reduced rate, without seeing the cars they have bought, gambling that most will be of retail quality and some may take longer to sell.

You say there is no work to be done, really? How do you know? What about having to employ mechanics, paintsprayers, panelbeaters, auto elctricians, sales staff, receptionists, accountants or buyers. Buy premises, run premises, get investment to buy stock.

Do you have such problems and procrastinate so much over buying everythng, in that case there is probably more profit in Tescos, do you negotiate for your milk, as after all, what did the farmer really do apart from milk the cow.

You are not in the ntrade so can't access the cars you are wanting, why would they let one bloke to get at the "good stuff", there are legal agreements in place between lease companies and trade buyers.

I would love to have access to "closed car auctions", where main dealers get a lot of their stock, but unless I want to invest a few million that isn't going to happen, premium stock will, as harveybobbles has said have a place to go, the big players get the cream and everybody else has a look at the leftovers, the rest goes to Auction, which is the only realistic place to get a car cheaper than retail.

For your information, CarGiant have agreements in place with lease companies and just buy entire fleets at a time, something that you could do, as long as you are happy to buy cars a hundred at a time. From a purely logistical postion no leasing company is going to do this, it would cost too much. Carsite is just a way of disposing of some cars at better than the price from auction or the large car supermarkets, but you will find that cars are only on there for a specific period of time, and then are outed to the usual suspects.

You really are overcomplicating this very simple task, unless you are in the market for something exotic like a Ferrari or Aston Martin where the margins are as massive as the prices, no dealer is going to be spend weeks looking for a specific car, if you go into a big dealership they may search their dealer networks national stocklist, or have an idea of what is being traded in over the next few weeks.

Have you ever actually bought a car before?

property.advert

If you don't like what I post, don't waste your Sunday afternoons trying to tell me what to do and what not to do. Just get back to your NOTW and settle in front of the telly for an afternoon of mind numbing boredom.

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A bloke down my street got a new Motability car last year. A few months later I saw his ex Motability car at a local back street dealer with "One lady owner ex-Motability" in the sales blurb. Dodgy.