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Firstly i am great full for my motability car (that i pay for ) before people start saying i am ungrateful i just think we are being ripped off .
I’m probably showing my ignorance here, why does advance payment change so much from one quarter to another when car prices don’t change in that time.
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So if a car is £25000 in q1 with £500 A/P ,Then in q2 the same car costs the same £25000 but yet the A/P jumps to £2000
How can Motability justice the increase in A/P is it just to make as much profit as they can at disabled customers expense.
I really would like Motability to explain the jump in adanced payments
Most of Motability customers need to use them because they need cars adapted(at extra cost ) they need bigger, wider cars ect, I do not think Motability care about their disabled custom
Why cant Motabiliy be run as a non profit to help their vulnerable customers
I also wounder if a complains petition was sent to someone the government / or the Queen (is she not the paterent or something )
Do I feel better after getting that of my chest NO!
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I recently left the scheme after 11 year of using it, as it just is not as viable an option for me as it once was and the huge ap’s are just not justifiable any more to lease a car and after the term what do you have to show for it.
Then their’s is the lack of cars and the long waits, I went with a new suzuki Vitara as it offered alot i need and was avalible in 4 weeks and luckly I got it at 0% apr. I plan to keep it for at least 5 years maybe alot longer. I am paying more but after I will have a car with some residual value in it maybe 1/3 to a 1/2 of the original value. For some the scheme is still great but for many it’s just not what it was at all.
So I totally get where you coming from brent. Many are either forced to extend the lease or leave the scheme.
Brent. Which cars are unsafe ?
Brent. Which cars are unsafe ?
I think taking it in the context it was put, allowed rubbish, unsafe, standard and uncomfortable cars unless they’re rich?
Brent meant unsuitable and thus unsafe as many are having to pick something unsuitable for them or their needs to remain on the scheme especially those that already extended for 5 years and the large ap’s are not affordable for many or justifiable to lease a car.
Personally I need a nice comfortable seat and many of the lower trim cars have the worst seats, that are uncomfortable and after 20 mins they become more and more unbearable.
Some higher trim are just not available now, although some cars are available on the scheme as they ev’s or plugins at crazy ap’s, that there’s no way I could afford to pay over the allowance. look at the lexus recently added to the scheme and what it is is a car with alot removed a special only for mb.
The Lexus is not a ‘special’ with things removed for motability, it is just a new trim line. Check on the Lexus website.
I stand corrected.
Either way it’s the only trim available from the range, I looked at lexus but cannot find any info on mb and at almost £4k in ap it’s not affordable or justifiable for many and certainly in my case would be over triple the ap I have ever paid on the scheme.
Some of the comments on the thread https://forum.whichmobilitycar.co.uk/forums/topic/lexus-ux-joins-scheme/
Are pretty clear, on many users view of this car. My personal favourite is
Can’t believe they’ve decided to drop this steaming log on the scheme, terrible car with low spec, crap ride, no rear legroom, tiny boot, appalling economy and a huge AP.
Badge snobs will buy any old tat, far better off with it’s sister version.
Rox sorry but I can’t see how unsuitable means unsafe also which cars are rubbish?
Rox sorry but I can’t see how unsuitable means unsafe also which cars are rubbish?
Seeing as there’s now only 500+ of the 2000+ cars that was once on the scheme maybe that to them means that what’s on offer to them is rubbish and not what it was.
It’s a subjective opinion one you might not agree with. Due to your needs and expectations being different.
As for being unsafe if after 20 mins of sitting in a car driving and the seat becomes so uncomfortable that your thinking more about how much pain your in than driving the car or it may makes you cramp up, all because of a unsuitable seat.
That could make it unsafe and again all our conditions differ. So many may have very different views and needs to others.
Just like I could say I don’t see how you can fail to see that?
Thats why I would recommend always getting a decent test drive and insist you sit in the seats you will be getting, which are not always the one’s in the car you actually test drive, they may differ.
So personal discomfort makes the car unsafe ? If that’s the case there’s a lot of unsafe cars being produced. In your scenario surely the driver is unsafe rather than the car no ?
The AP question is an excellent question and one which I would be interested in reading the answer.
I suspect manufacturers are giving smaller discounts given the shortage of new cars and the AP has to rise to compensate.
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