We hear so many stories its hard to get to the truth but what I’ve read in the past is Motability don’t benefit from our extra donations?
Take my current car as an example, VW Tiguan that only has one option of IQ Lights I paid for at £425. The car when I’m done with it will be handed back to MB who in turn will send it to an auction dealer in most cases. My understanding is that MB will be looking at a price suitable for the car for its age and mileage in this case VW Tiguan in R-Line trim. They will not say to their buyers “it’s a Tiguan R-Line with optional IQ Light”, they will pass it on simply as a Tiguan R-Line model with no mentions of any options though of course when a dealer buys the car from MB and sales it will have the car plastered with banners in there showroom high lighting all the options the car has and why its worth the extra £’s they will be asking for.
My guess is that MB don’t even know that my car has the option of the IQ Lights in it unless they scrutinise the invoice but would have no interest in doing so and its the dealer who buy and sale the car on who benefit however, again I’m guessing a bit, all the bidders for the car will know what options are in the car if there worth their weight so would have bidders prepared to go over the market price for the car so in turn MB will benefit in that way but have no control over the cars final value.
Just my thinking but yes it would be nice if there was a possible way to filter a bit of that extra cash back to the individual customer but would be too much bother for MB who are quite happy I’m sure with the way things are and would of course say that everyone benefits.