Ex Motability

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One key is A Very Bad Thing.

Ensure that they either provide a second key coded to the car, or £300 discount. A new key supplied and coded, and the lost key removed from the immobiliser can cost £300.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

motability will hold the spare key for it but thats the dealers responsability to track it and its paperwork, the service should have been done at the dealership network and thus be on the dealership portal computer.

if the dealer is half hearted and lazy and wont track them walk away.

Crabman

forgotmyname wrote: »

But how do they find out about the car/system being abused. Nobody in the family will tell them.

They already fit location trackers to vehicles assigned to high-risk recipients of Motability vehicles & it's rumoured that they are considering a wider roll out which wouldn't be a bad idea.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Crabman wrote: »

They already fit location trackers to vehicles assigned to high-risk recipients of Motability vehicles & it's rumoured that they are considering a wider roll out which wouldn't be a bad idea.

i heared a rumour that they are to fit active GPS trackers accross the fleet like some compies use to monitor, speed, location, and vehicle stats this type of tracker actually aided my father when a car came round a bend and slammed into him, but when it came to insurance statement he denied everything saying that my dad was speeding round the bend and skidded into him, the tracker results showed that my father was doing 20mph, braked to a stop (no abs kicked in to show abrupt stop) and when my dad realised he was going to get hit he released his brakes and allowed the car to tap the van backwards, so my dad prevented further damage, and the tracker proved my father was hit rather than he hit the car the other guys insurance company coughed up right away upon the tracker results from the tracker company.

ntb1

We bought an 07 plate car 3 years ago and had no issues. Great price and seems to have been looked after mostly.

3 years on only had to do regular servicing.

From_St_Neots

I have a real gripe with parts of Motability. I friend of the family boasts that he gets to pick between a BMW 1 series or Volvo V40 so his wife looks good on the school run pulling up in a new car.

As this is tax payer funded I reckon we should go back to the days of if you need a car you are given it with no choice of model. As a tax payer, what is wrong with issuing a Kia for 7 years?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

From_St_Neots wrote: »

I have a real gripe with parts of Motability. I friend of the family boasts that he gets to pick between a BMW 1 series or Volvo V40 so his wife looks good on the school run pulling up in a new car.

As this is tax payer funded I reckon we should go back to the days of if you need a car you are given it with no choice of model. As a tax payer, what is wrong with issuing a Kia for 7 years?

its not handed out free you can opt to pay extra ontop of the mobility elemant in way of a higher deposit then they higher running costs, then the higher fuel costs.

mystic_trev

I've got an ex Motability 307 I bought five years ago at a BCA Auction. The car was under a year old and under 8,000 miles, and apart from a few scuffs on the passenger sill (wheelchair?) in good nick. I paid £6,500 - so half the price new, and apart from new tyres and regular servicing, no problems.

Richard53

From_St_Neots wrote: »

I have a real gripe with parts of Motability. I friend of the family boasts that he gets to pick between a BMW 1 series or Volvo V40 so his wife looks good on the school run pulling up in a new car.

As this is tax payer funded I reckon we should go back to the days of if you need a car you are given it with no choice of model. As a tax payer, what is wrong with issuing a Kia for 7 years?

The cars that are 'issued' without any extra payment (i.e. in exchange for the person's whole mobility allowance for three years) are all the poverty-spec models. Anything decent (and I mean eg a base model Focus and above) and you have to make an advance payment. For a Volvo V40 that would be up to £2499 and a 1-series BMW is up to £1599. That's a one-off payment at the start of the lease, and you still have to hand the car back after three years. So the people who have these expensive cars on Motability are not just getting a freebie at the taxpayer's expense.

You have to remember that to qualify for a Motability car you must be in receipt of the higher rate mobility allowance, and this is given up in exchange for the car. The taxpayer would be funding these payments anyway. If you object to that, fine, but it's a different issue.

I don't deny that the Motability scheme is a good deal if you qualify, but it isn't exactly a free hand-out (except in the sense that all disability allowances are a free hand-out). The problem is that to get it you have to have quite a serious disability, and I would imagine that most people would prefer to do without either.

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Bloke down my street is on motability and has a Nissan Note that doesn't look like the poverty spec model. Has flashy alloys and front fog lights etc.

Also his wife uses it for work while he potters around in one of his old 1980s classics.