@Glos Guy
Adaptation removal is a grey area for sure and as kezo has said there’s many a hoist on E-Bay, in fact I’ve got one in my loft though I haven’t got the fixing plate as removing that from the car could cause problems with getting the GCB and would not fit in a different model car.
Why its a grey area is if you read the terms of the MB agreement we sign on delivery if you have adaption to the car it says and I quote what it says for my next car “Advance Adaptation Rental Payment £1,070 This is payable on or before the commencement of the hire term”.
The thing with it saying “Adaptation Rental” would sort of suggest your only lending them but as noted with the hoist in the loft I have also removed the steering ball with the remote control, but again not the part that’s connected to the car, simply because I think its mine, I’ve paid for it. I don’t always do it but sometime I do simply because I get annoyed having to pay for them time and time again.
I’ve never done it but I have often thought about ringing the adaption installers to ask how much they’d give me for the other half of the system so they can resale it.