It’s beyond all reasonable doubt that we are being taken for a ride, or if you like, kicked in the whatsits while were down and can’t defender ourselves, when it comes to adaptions. Lets face it what do they think, we have adaption because we love having steel bars controlling the brake, hoists and remote controls clogging up our cars because we love them and what’s more we don’t buy into the extra luxury cost of automatic gearboxes because were lazy.
It sort of sums it up when Motability quietly removed the option of taking your 3 year old hoist out of your car and putting it in the new one for free then defend themselves by saying you can transfer but you would have to pay the installer for the cost and the installers tell us it would be just cheaper to buy a new hoist at £590.
As for grants, forget it as they told me I would not get a grant for a new hoist on the grounds that my current hoist is in good condition and meets my needs, yes it is in good condition and meets my needs but its in my current car with an extortionate but secret cost to transfer to the new one. Talk about being thrown to the Lions and leaving us to deal with adaptions installers who have a closed market and charge what they like as I’m sure as night follows day that Motability would not let us go to an unapproved installer to get the job done for a reasonable cost.
Motability know they got customers who require adaptions to their cars over a barrel that makes it hard for us to go elsewhere for a car.
I’ve said enough so won’t move onto the great AP scam for now.