Your on the money there ajn as like myself I had my full licence to drive manual cars taken away by DVLA when I became disabled and rightly so but now have an “automatics only” driving licence and pay dearly for it It seems just slightly unfair to pay more money for the need. I don’t want to come across as ungrateful because it’s a great scheme I’m sure we would all agree. its just if for the obvious reasons of a disability need of an auto other than just preferred. I feel should come into considering for extra cost of auto’s needs over preference.
The auto debate comes up often on this forum but since writing in this thread today I’ve sent an e-mail of to Motability to see if they can see my / our automatic premium injustice we talk about here. That said it was a long e-mail and I signed off with answering the question for them so does not require a reply and taking rox’s point in mind I said and I quote… “I don’t really need you to answers this question because I don’t believe you have one but would be nice if you could pass my concerns about this subject on to the powers that be to see if anything can be done about this injustice before the only cars available on the scheme are four seater electric cars that have just about room in the boot for a walking stick”.
The gun’s have gone quite on this thread and all seems well on the western front.?
Thought I’d just pop back in with what Motability said about my e-mail regards paying extra for automatics when we have to drive automatics through no thought of our own other than being disabled, I also made the point that, yes, there are automatics with £0 AP but none that are suitable for carrying a hoist, assembled pavement scooter and four passengers plus the disabled drive.
Yep the answer was “there are automatic cars with £0 AP” ? but went on to suggest I use the grant system and too their credit they have put a marker on my account so when or if I ring Motability next year when I renew they already have the information at hand for sorting my problem.
Apart from that, as long as the DSG VW Touran remains at its current AP and is still on the scheme come July 21 I would be OK with that otherwise it will be a grant for the automatic I’m afraid.