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Similar situation on the Inster (as far as I can tell, the mob search engine has the 02 49kWh twice at zero and 299 while Hyundai site seems to still be showing Jan-Mar). I’ve emailed the dealer and asked them to clarify if it’s gone down and if so will they do the decent thing and reapply the new rate, but as I managed to lock in the Q4 price of 199 anyway I’m not going to town over it, consider myself lucky considering what upcoming orderers are going to be facing!
Based on 8k/pa iirc, which, from July, makes it even more comparable. Can’t imagine an uplift to 10k would put that much on the monthly cost?
I honestly don’t think the government wants Mob to continue. However, they should be more open about it and open up the market properly, especially in relation to mobility component of pip. Surely in this day and age it’s not beyond FCA, DWP etc to enable recipients to have it partly/wholly diverted to bonfide lease and purchase companies for agreed time terms and contracts. Even without the VAT exemption I suspect free enterprise would result in better deals, it’s not like Mob pass that advantage on anymore, they just use it to line their own coffers and grant monies to things like community transport initiatives and other off the wall schemes and their own wages/pensions, especially the top echelons! Maggie would’ve opened it up to the free market by now! 😁
I’m unsure whether the Inster 02 85kW 49kWh has gone down or not. It’s listed twice, one at zero and one at 199. And Hyundai pdf is still Q1, have to wait until it becomes clear.
From what I remember their interest rates were never very competitive, you could invariably get better finance deals.
10,000 pa? Ok, maybe 20k has been generous but a 50% slash? I mean it’s not even 1k a month, you’d have thought 12 maybe even 15 but 10? For a group of people that, by their very nature, don’t have a lot of the other travel options that most of society does.
And then they hike the excess to 25p a mile! 25 pence! I’m days away from changing and as of this moment my mileage is 51,164 – so on the new rules that would be an excess of 21,164, at £1 for every four miles that’s £5,291 !! Unless they’ve forgotten a decimal point the one I’m about to get will be the last on the scheme! And, sadly, I suspect that’s the plan, I strongly suspect the scheme is being made unpalatable on purpose due to political pressure.
There is a link in your MoB account that enables you to do it. Did you not keep the plates the car came with when you took them off? 99% odds on that that’s the reg that DVLA will reassign.
Update:
Car in so on schedule for correct change date. Also, dealer sticking to original AP
Kezo, the Aber dealer is Sinclair Swansea now anyway so nothing in it!
As one of those that had my original Eazee replaced with Ohme by MoB, hopefully the Ohme three years runs from its install date and not the original charger install date? Which should give me at least another year yet.
@Glos Guy yes, I know the transfer process (done it plenty of times via DVLA site on non mob cars). I was just asking if the various databases MoB and their partners use update swiftly. For example if you get a puncture two weeks after putting your plate on, go into KF saying your MoB car has a puncture and they put the (personal) plate in the system. Was wondering if you, or anyone else, had ever encountered any issues.
I use a different approach, which does not rely upon dealerships and I find to be extremely easy. Basically, I follow these steps; 1) I take delivery of the car with the normal dealer assigned plates. 2) After a period of time (usually when the date prefix is no longer the ‘current’ new reg
) I do the online application to assign the private plate (no cost as the plate is on retention – see step 4). 3) I drive to Halfords and when parked in their car park I unscrew the plates and hand them to the technician, so that when they make up the new private plates they can drill the holes in the same positions. I screw the new plates on the car and drive home, storing the original plates in my garage. 4) Just before the car is due to go back, I do the online retention (£85 cost) and the registration number that the car had when I took delivery is always reassigned. As I already have those plates with the correct pre-drilled holes, I just swap them with the private plates at home. Takes 5 minutes. Total cost of the above is the £85 retention and the cost of the plates, and each process can be done simply at a time to suit me.Glos Guy, I’m looking to use this method come April (hopefully). One Q, do you find all the various databases that MoB, RAC, KF etc use update swiftly or have you had to quote the original plate to get the vehicle recognised at all?
To be fair, why would they know those details yet? Rachel in accounts/treasuryHMRC won’t have finalised anything yet regarding deadlines and cut-offs. As for insurance, all they can do quote the current rate of insurance tax which, given there’ll be another budget first, could well change altogether anyway. You’d have been better off ringing Rachel, not that you’d have got any sense!
Wonder why the 5’s have gone, to much private demand or maybe coming straight back with a revised AP? Time will tell.
Surely there must be an underlying fault somewhere that’s causing the 12v battery to fall over? Trouble is nobody in the chain is interested in diagnosis these days, it’s all just replace the failed bit and move along. Somebody is going to buy that car and will still be suffering the same issues.
I’ve just had an assessment and was recommended the Bever one for £425. I did really like it, but didn’t know there was a cheaper alternative out there!
While I’ve never tried one of those handle type Bever ones, my brain just says no, lol. Tbh I pretty much only use the ball/pad on roundabouts and other similar situations where I know I’m turning/indicating simultaneously.
@ChrisK, it does work but like you I don’t use it. It does auto light up sometimes when I turn off and the see me home headlights come on? I’ll mindfully check it out properly and give a better reply.
I’ll also rate the Techmobility version when I’ve got it and had it a while.
I spoke to Techmobility today and confirmed the item on the MB adaptation list was the one I thought. The guy said it was designed in-house by a staff member from Cardiff. I said “did he used to work for Lodgesons?” (Jokingly). Turns out yes he did. No wonder it looks so similar!
I’ve gone for one.
Update:
Contacted dealer upon getting back into the UK to check things had gone ahead as planned but turns out the salesman left on bad terms before the order window!
So have had to order on Q1 price so £100 quid more😒 Hey ho.
At least the new female salesperson seems on the ball, communicative and organised. And is pretty confident that the car will be ready by lease end at end of march.
Thanks @kezo , tbh just about all the functions are redundant these days, with all the automated stuff. I kind of use it for indicators on roundabouts and the odd manual main/dip beam and that’s it!
@ChrisK couldn’t agree more, the links on the adaptions page just go to the general website, not the item in question and that, coupled with the lack of descriptions and info, does indeed make it a disgrace.
Looking around on the Techmobility site I’m pretty sure the one in the top pic on this page is the 9way in question and looks close enough to what I’m used to for me.
https://www.techmobilityuk.com/infrared-controls-driving-controls-colchester
Never Trust a Tory. I’ll solve world peace when I become Miss World- and I’m a bloke!
I doubt that bars you from entering nowadays! Go for it, if it means world peace I’ll vote for you!
) I do the online application to assign the private plate (no cost as the plate is on retention – see step 4). 3) I drive to Halfords and when parked in their car park I unscrew the plates and hand them to the technician, so that when they make up the new private plates they can drill the holes in the same positions. I screw the new plates on the car and drive home, storing the original plates in my garage. 4) Just before the car is due to go back, I do the online retention (£85 cost) and the registration number that the car had when I took delivery is always reassigned. As I already have those plates with the correct pre-drilled holes, I just swap them with the private plates at home. Takes 5 minutes. Total cost of the above is the £85 retention and the cost of the plates, and each process can be done simply at a time to suit me.