Just going off the auto premium for a minute even though I’m one of those that get hit by the extra cost of auto’s simply because I’m disabled but within this thread I’ve seen it mentioned that there are no cost for adaptions and would like to correct that because Motability might say “adaption, many of which are available for no extra cost” the remote control device I have to have cost £445 currently Q2 and Q3 so with the auto premium as well I have to find near on a £1,000 before I even think of AP’s.
Another cost that’s crept in under the radar is the transfer of your hoist to your new car again Motability says “we are aiming to make the majority of these (stowage systems) transferable in future” and is simply not true and where it was free to transfer a hoist from old car to new as long as the hoist was no more than 4 years old that option has been been handed over to the adaption installers who don’t want to know about transferring and say “it will be cheaper for you to have a new hoist than transfer your old one” because I’m sure the profit from a new install is higher than transferring an old second-hand one.
I’ll stop here because I don’t want to get into arguments of needing a larger car and its larger AP cost just for wanting, oh sorry, just for needing to carry a fully assembled pavement scooter in the boot.