@kezo Your point 4 is an interesting one. When I spoke to Motability about our early termination they mentioned things that had to be returned and they didn’t mention adaptations. As it wasn’t mentioned, my thoughts are that as Motability don’t sell or provide second hand adaptations, and we paid a chunk of money towards them, they wouldn’t be that bothered if we retained the bits that we can and, if they are bothered, we wouldn’t be due any good condition bonus for them to deduct it from anyway
I’m always moaning at MB about having to pay for new adaption every 3 years but from memory from many years ago they did tell me I could pay the installers to take them out for private use but you can’t have them put in another MB car because the, then RSA insurance, think its an unknown risk because they don’t know how much wear and tear they have had. This of course is for adaption that control the car and not for things like hoist and such.
On Ebay (last time I looked), there were so many adaptions of various sorts, but mainly hoists, my impression in the main, was they could only have come from 2 places:
A: Somebody removing them, when their lease cars were returned to Motability, as a back hander or;
B: The lease customer removed them prior to returning the car.
@Glos-Guy you could leave the chasis fixing plate and just take the hoist out yourself, it will be cheaper😂😁