As many members have discovered over the years, the price that Motability ask you for is always higher than the actual trade value of the car. The concensus has always been that it’s because Motability want you to take out a new lease and not lose you as a customer.
Spot on. Asking prices are always way too high, especially for a car sold with no warranty, and you can always do far better buying elsewhere. Motability Operations make a lot of profit out of every lease that we take out, so it’s in their interest to make it very unattractive for us to leave.