changing mobility car early

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fogartyblue. wrote: »

Each to their own then!

Without any forward planning you will be in danger of putting your head and neck in the sand.

If you find it better to ignore what may happen and only confront the situation after you have been called for an assessment then I accept your decision.

But many do prefer to plan ahead on the basis of 'what if'.
Given what we already know so far, my wife will lose her HRM when PIP starts. There is no question about that! If she doesn't - well that would be a bonus, but not something we are planning on happening.

My wife has a motability car which she obtained late last year.
We looked at all of the cars with the least advance payment (max £300) as we did not want to find that having the car taken off her before the end of the term would have meant an awful lot of money would have been lost.

She too is looking to get out of her vehicle (mainly because it is far too low to the ground for my comfort).

We are considering either to not get another one and save the money until PIP comes round and then buy our own. It should be two years before it happens which means that we could get together over £5000 by that time. We can rely on family to get us round in the interim.

Or get another Motability car, one that we both like, but wasn't available at the time - a BMW X1 2.3M x drive.
Keep it for as long as the DLA continues and then buy it off Motability when PIP comes in.

Not to plan ahead is a little silly in my opinion.

I'd definitely go for the BMW seems really popular round these parts, toodle PIP.

uponahill wrote: »

At the moment I am locked into a Motability car which was my second choice as I did not want to fund any AP into something that was to be temporary.

I have a very good working relationship and have been a long term customer of my local BMW dealership.

As from April I am told that there will be a large selection of the new 3 series coming on board as well as an improvement of the 1 series availablity.

As I have said the only X drive (4x4) X1 available at the moment is the underpowered 1.8. From April they are hoping to allow the uprated 2.0 X drive diesel in either the 180BHP form or the one I want the 205BHP.

The latter is one powerful, low running cost 4x4!

With a max AP of £2000 it will be well worth it.
The BMW dealer has also explained how to get out of the current lease.

So for the Beemers fans, I have been told to watch the space.