I have been saying for years that low mileage members should be paid an additional amount similar to the good condition bonus. High-mileage drivers should not necessarily be charged extra they could be the base mileage and anything less than 60,000 miles over the three years could be given money back. Groups of 0-5000, 5000-10,000 and 10,000-15,000 would seem fair.
I agree but, it can be complicated from a selling point of view, a very low mileage car can have equal wear to the running gear as a car with 3 or 4 times the mileage and have a knock on effect to it overall value. If I were buying a 3 year old car and one had 10,ooo on the clock and the other 30-40 I’d buy the higher mileage one, soley because of the chances of it being run at operating temperature more frequeently than in stop start traffic. Dealers aren’t daft.
I doubt Motability will do 5,000 mile increments, it wouuld have to be upto 20, 40 and 60k miles. Would the reward be great enough to be worth the change?