"Hogging the middle lane"

force_ten

Disabled_Rights_For_Me wrote: »

I haven't broadcast the fact that I have another car. The way I see it, when we get to a certain age as well, things stop being means tested such as my bus pass, heating allowance, prescriptions etc. These things I am entitled to but if they were all means tested, then I would lose them.
I can have more than one car if I can afford it.

it is not a case of affording two cars because one of your cars is paid for by the UK taxpayer via the motability scheme

Disabled_Rights_For_Me wrote: »

Part of the motability scheme

A free car free parking free road tax and free troll bridge charges

I am lost for words

Tilt

Disabled_Rights_For_Me wrote: »

My car has passed its MOT. My motability car is on lease and so is brand new every three years and so would not have a speedo problem.

If my speedo says it is 70mph then it is 70mph. I can't be held responsible if other peoples speedos are wrong, they should get a better MOTist.

Unless you keep it MORE than 3 years, it dosn't need an MOT.

EDIT: I realised you have 2 cars so I assume you meant your "own" car has just been MOT'd. Question is that should people be entitled to a mobility car if they can afford a car of their own?

marlot

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Most over read, but it varies - old cars can be 10% over, more modern about 3mph, and newish cars can be spot on...

I find it varies by brand rather than age. my toyota is close to true speed, but is the oldest car in the household.

Disabled_Rights_For_Me

It is not all plain sailing - I do have to pay for fuel AND there are some private toll roads that don't accept my badge.

There was a temporary one in Bristol - it cost me TWO POUNDS to pass. That was a rip off. I showed my badge as well and they just said it was private land. I said so is the severn bridge and I get that free and they said it was private land so I said well you have just said that and so I said well you have just said that.


Anyway, they did not let me pass for free. I told them that they would not hear the end of me. They are out of business now, bridge closed down.


Yes one car I own, one is leased through scheme.


Being a pensioner and being disabled, things are not means tested. Therefore it is not me you have a problem with it is the system. I only take what is going.

JustinR1979

marlot wrote: »

I find it varies by brand rather than age. my toyota is close to true speed, but is the oldest car in the household.

I found age a big factor due to how the speed is taken.
Older cars cable driven speedo - typically 10% over at all speeds.
ABS driven speedo newer cars - 2/3mph over at all speeds.

Disabled_Rights_For_Me

JustinR1979. I like your cat picture. Thank you. So cute.

Disabled_Rights_For_Me

I wouldn't be affected by it. Its free in my registered car.

mattyprice4004

Disabled_Rights_For_Me wrote: »

Anyway, you shouldn't really have answered this thread. This was MY thread as I opened it and I should be the one to close it due to being picked on.

You're being picked on because you were wrong, and refused to accept that.
Keep to the left unless overtaking, or you can expect idiots like me to use high beams behind you until you do.

Joe_Horner

force_ten wrote: »

it is not a case of affording two cars because one of your cars is paid for by the UK taxpayer via the motability scheme

A free car free parking free road tax and free troll bridge charges

I am lost for words

Tilt wrote: »

[...] Question is that should people be entitled to a mobility car if they can afford a car of their own?

All fun aside, this is the sort of harm that the OP's trolling under the guise of disability causes, and why the site should really have closed this thread when I reported it around post 3 or 4.

People with disabilities do not get a "free car funded by the state", nor do they (automatically) get free parking.

If their disability is significant enough, what they do get (at least until the gubmint changes things) is an allowance called DLA to help with the extra costs that disability does bring.

That allowance isn't means tested because it's intended to put someone on broadly the same footing as someone able bodied in the same situation. So, for example, if you're earning £100k per year in the city but you need to run a specially adapted car rather than use public transport to get there, you're at a disadvantage compared to someone able bodied and earning the same £100k per year - it costs you more than them to earn the same.

The State, in its wisdom, has decided that the extra costs average out at about £47 per week for someone with serious mobility problems, and that's what they give everyone with a bad enough disability as the higher mobility element of DLA. How you use that money to offset your disability is entirely up to you, but one of the options is to lease a car through Motability.

Motability provide leased cars without any of the various credit checks and so on that many disabled people would fail and, in return, they get your DLA payments directly from the DSS for the length of the lease.

Apart from the lack of credit checks, they're a bit of an anachronism nowadays because anyone can walk into most dalers and apply to lease, or go via one of the many private lease companies like Ling. But they're not a free car - it will cost you from around £180 per month upwards to have one.

So, please don't let the trolling on here stoke your anti-cripple prejudices - I'm beginning to suspect it's exactly what it's aiming for, so don't let it win!

Disabled_Rights_For_Me

The M6 is free with a blue badge (as I had stated - with the registered car). I make a habit of making sure that I have such things up to date and so have the exemption. Any charges such as the £15 is administration but is NOT a charge for crossing it.


It depends on how you look at whether a car is free or not.


You have money given to you and you buy (lease) the car or you have money given directly to someone else to buy (lease) the car for you.


I could either have the money (which I do not need) or use it to get the car. That is my choice but either way, whether money comes directly to me and I pay it OR directly to someone else on my behalf, the lease is still free as such, I am not the one paying.