I do own & run my own vehicle, so for the past 12 months, there has always been 1 motor sitting idle on a daily basis, but as the motability car is fully electric, for economy, this is my preferred choice for anything local, so it dose more mileage than I do in mine.
(To add my vehicle is not suitable to be adapted for the daughter’s needs.)
For any sort of independence, our daughter wants & needs to be able to drive once again,
unfortunately a past accident & imposed conditions from DLM dictate that this will not be possible through motability for a further 4 years.
We know there were going to be consequences following her accident, but had we known a blanket 5 year ban on her driving a motability vehicle, we would have had more time to evaluate our options & acted sooner.
Those options include a possible private lease, but having never leased away from the scheme, I don’t know if adaptions are even allowed? Any feedback welcome
Purchase a used vehicle & get it adapted?
Then once we have a proposed vehicle, I can obtain a more specific insurance quote & do all the sums.
While our expectations seemed justified in keeping our current motability vehicle in place for the last 12 months.
With 15 months remaining on our current lease, there is no benefit to our disabled daughter remaining on the scheme under the current set of circumstances.
Tom…
