Buying an ex-motability car.

ukjoel

I would call carshop and speak with the sales manager.

The majority of motability cars wont need to be changed so this could be an Irish car ( it will possibly need an mot as well - do they expect you to arrange this too?). Have you seen the car, has the dealer seen the car.

In all honesty it rings some warning bells - The dealer needs to do this as its part of the value add service they provide (otherwise you may as well shoot to the auction yourself)

Think second paragraph from CaptainKidd is top advice. Sounds like a lazy or inexperienced salesman to me.

I think if you challenge them on this at a higher level you will find they have made a mistake.

Flyboy152

cjm66 wrote: »

We're buying the car from The Carshop and they have told us we'll have to do the car tax thing, not them. Is that not the way it usually works? If we have to do the tax thing when we collect the car, it sounds as though there is no way that it can be driven legally as we won't have the log book until we get the car so we can't even get it home, let alone 25 miles to the DVLA without it being untaxed.

I'm a bit stumped.

Absolutely not. It is the selling dealer's responsibility to do all of that, not yours. It doesn't sound as though this particular dealer is all that good. The dealer should not be releasing an untaxed car.

Flyboy152

ukjoel wrote: »

I would call carshop and speak with the sales manager.

The majority of motability cars wont need to be changed so this could be an Irish car ( it will possibly need an mot as well - do they expect you to arrange this too?). Have you seen the car, has the dealer seen the car.

In all honesty it rings some warning bells - The dealer needs to do this as its part of the value add service they provide (otherwise you may as well shoot to the auction yourself)

Think second paragraph from CaptainKidd is top advice. Sounds like a lazy or inexperienced salesman to me.

I think if you challenge them on this at a higher level you will find they have made a mistake.

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paddedjohn

ukjoel wrote: »

i would call carshop and speak with the sales manager.

the majority of motability cars wont need to be changed so this could be an irish car ( it will possibly need an mot as well - do they expect you to arrange this too?). Have you seen the car, has the dealer seen the car.

In all honesty it rings some warning bells - the dealer needs to do this as its part of the value add service they provide (otherwise you may as well shoot to the auction yourself)

think second paragraph from captainkidd is top advice. Sounds like a lazy or inexperienced salesman to me.

I think if you challenge them on this at a higher level you will find they have made a mistake.

the only time they wont have to be changed is if the new owner is using disability tax.

CaptainKidd

Flyboy152 wrote: »

But the DVLA would have retained the old tax disc.

In my situation the car was the sellers own car who was entitled to the disabled tax, he left it on for me till i got home and got it sorted with the dvla so that it still registered as taxed on any anpr cameras, when i sent him it back he then got it changed onto his new car, the chances are i would have been ok and the tax would not have registered as being off the car by the time i got it sorted but i didnt want to chance it.

Ilona

My last three cars were all Ex Motability, and in all cases the dealer got the car taxed and all the paperwork completed. Find another dealer if yours wont do this for you. Don't know if I am allowed to say this but try Perry's.
Ilona

Flyboy152

CaptainKidd wrote: »

In my situation the car was the sellers own car who was entitled to the disabled tax, he left it on for me till i got home and got it sorted with the dvla so that it still registered as taxed on any anpr cameras, when i sent him it back he then got it changed onto his new car, the chances are i would have been ok and the tax would not have registered as being off the car by the time i got it sorted but i didnt want to chance it.

Sent what back?

Rolandtheroadie

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Sent what back?

Tax disc? DVLA cant retain what they aint got.

My last car had disabled tax, I handed it in to DVLA when I taxed it in my name.

They did say I shouldnt have had the disc (previous owner should have retained/surrendered) but hey ho.

Flyboy152

Part of the procedure is to return the old tax disc when changing categories on the car. The DVLA insist that this is surrendered at the time. If it is not available and still in force, a form has to be completed to explain why (or at least that used to be the case).

s_b

the question asked by cjm66 was answered by me in post2
i always find it interesting when posters ignore the answer they dont want to hear
its just another case of them only telling you what they want to tell you
theres obviously more to the story because dealer would have done the legwork
maybe dealer tired of them