For one reason or another you see quite a few people ending their lease’s early (car no longer suitable) over on the FB group. Why not put them back into the scheme’s “available cars ready for immediate lease” at minimal AP.
It was asked on Motability Operations social media pages a year or two back and Motability stated it was not something they would do.
Mainly because of the logistics and costs involved in such a scheme.
Basically, Motability do not have the resources to transfer returned vehicles between locations for potential customers to view and then potentially lease. They have a contract for volume removal of vehicles from dealerships to auction/MFL only, not the capacity to ferry individual vehicles around.
Plus, dealerships are only committed/paid to supply new vehicles on the scheme. In effect they would not want early returned vehicles being held on their forecourts specifically for Motability. They want shut of them asap by the established auction/mfl route.
Any changes to the established procedure would add cost to the scheme and cost needs to be paid for – usually by the customer base!
Yes, they do it in a very limited way with WAV;s – but apparently numbers are really low and involve the very small number of converters who may have to demo the WAV anyway. To do it at a greater volume would be impossible.