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Make your own mind up when you read this link
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How about we collectively write to the media via email and campaign to get an investigative journalist to do some digging and put the banks under the same scrutiny that we as disabled people incur when we are scrutinised on weather we are entitled to the benefit are the banks entitled what happened to compulsory competitive tendering when it comes to how the Motsbility scheme is run
I’m not. I did read it and while I agree with some things I’m neither here nor there on others.
When I first became disabled I refused to believe it and tried to work so it was around year before I claimed benefits and in that time I had blown my savings just paying bills etc, so when I had to order my first car I had to go 0 ap as it’s all I had. Over the years I’ve learnt that I had to save to get better cars. My next car was £700ap and next £3k. I made a lot of sacrifices to do it, but done it and enjoyed my cars.
I do believe that others are not willing to sacrifice and save much to pay high ap’s. I also know that others just can’t as I was one of them. But I never begrudged they guy on here ordering a high ap Merc while all’s I could get is a 0ap Astra. That’s life.
I know little about markets etc but everything is up and even when wholesale prices come down our prices don’t. It’s just a fing scam. So a 30-50k car with everything thrown in at say 2k – 4k is value in my eyes. Yes I would like lower ap’s but it ain’t happening. All this reserve money I’ve no idea but I would like to see autos subsided to manual prices and those that need WAVs get more. And how many cars are being returned for little or no problems, again I believe some peoples heads are being turned by other cars not long after they’ve picked up their own. I’ve done it, mind it was only an ordered car that didn’t even have a build date.
Could more be done, yes. That goes for everyone. Mobility, the customers and DWP. Will it happen, probably not.
My biggest gripe now is that mobility used to be easy and pleasant to deal with. From my own experience and reading others experience on here that’s not the case anymore.
For us the lease holder it’s by far the best, unless you’ve a spare 10-20k lying in the bank which I don’t. My last check was £180 but Tuesday ain’t far away lol.
Ps I hope this hasn’t come across rude or belittling in any way.
I’m on the lower end of a two wage (one benefits) household.
How about we collectively write to the media via email and campaign to get an investigative journalist to do some digging and put the banks under the same scrutiny that we as disabled people incur when we are scrutinised on weather we are entitled to the benefit are the banks entitled what happened to compulsory competitive tendering when it comes to how the Motsbility scheme is run
And cause even more of a ‘crap storm’ in the mass media?
As it stands, in the ‘court of public opinion’ and the mainstream press ,obtaining a Motability vehicle is somehow viewed as a ‘perk’ or as getting a car ‘on the cheap’ – hence the recent anti-Motability headlines.
Also, the mainstream press seemingly cannot distinguish between the Motability Scheme and the assessment process for disability related allowances – they lump it all together. Even you are entwining the two in talking about the banks and the disability assessment process in the same sentence!
To clarify, Motability Operations Ltd is a private company owned by four PLC banks. It is a sole source supplier to a charity (the Motability Foundation). It does not need ‘Compulsory Competitive Tendering’ or the 21st Century equivalent – if that still exists for Government contracts, as the scheme is not a government contract.
The disability assessment processes (and the results thereof) are solely managed by either the DWP, Scottish Social Security or Veterans_UK. All Government bodies.
This recent bad press involving Motability just needs to die a death and not be whipped up again. Hopefully it becomes tomorrow’s ‘chip paper’!
Let stories about the Orange One’s tariffs and markets plunging make the headlines now!
I am more than happy with Motability Operations, I have no interest in their profit or employees perks.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Agree with BD in that going to the press would be the wrong move and likely be turned around agains’t us!
Interesting that the big 4 banks clearly do gain a lot from financing the scheme, not least in all the fees etc as explained in that article. I guess that none of us should be surprised, as they don’t do anything for the greater good!
In the press the lease companies are experiencing huge residual loss on EV leases they are asking the Government for help.
I am assuming Motability are not shielded from similar losses.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
In the press the lease companies are experiencing huge residual loss on EV leases they are asking the Government for help. I am assuming Motability are not shielded from similar losses.
I have mentioned a few times that Motability told their major dealer principals last year that their exposure to the EV residual value problems is the main reason for the across the board AP increases that we have been experiencing.
I am at a loss as to what lease companies think that the government can do to address this issue though. Whilst the very slight softening of the ZEV mandates announced this week is barely scratching the surface, and the government will have no choice but to revisit this again in a year or two, this and the inevitable future revisions will only serve to slow demand for EVs, new and used, even more. Used EV prices will only rise when customers start to want them in sufficient volumes, and there’s no sign of that happening any time soon.
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