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A lot of the time people drive into water, stop when they realise it is too deep. They then reverse and it goes up the exhaust straight into the engine.
Is that a street light it is plugged into? Is this something that is available in London charging from chargers built into street lighting.
What would motabilty do with them at the end of the 3 years. Second hand electric cars are not the most sought after vehicles at the minute. People are scared of them.
Did anyone see the bit in the news about the 2 guys in Scotland at the weekend who went out in their Tesla and it was raining. The car wouldn’t start after they came back to it. Tesla have now said water has got into the battery and they want £17,000 to fix it. No ifs no buts if you want it fixed that’s the price.
Yes Mike, you can. Unless your current car has done very high mileage, a simple phone call will allow you to extend the lease. They will ask if you want to extend for one year or two. Always say two. You will then effectively have between now and March 2026 to make your decision on whether to go EV and which car to order. You can order at any time within that period, you don’t have to wait 2 years, so the pressure is completely off
you don’t even need to phone them to extend you can do it online. As for miles that does not seem to matter anymore either I extended for 2 years online and they didn’t ask about mileage.
I thought Seat were no more, did VW not say they were stopping producing them this year. Some models were to be rebranded under the Cupra brand. Both Seat dealers have already closed in Belfast.
In Belfast you just hook up to the closest street light. I will give you an example of N.Ireland charging for cars. Newry and Mourne council have 36,000 car parking spaces of that amount they have 2 spaces with electric charging which have not worked in 3 years. Lidl are building a new superstore at carryduff it will have 2 electric charging car park spaces.
I don’t think they do, most cars coming in to N.Ireland come into a place called warrenpoint the boat to there comes from heysham. I think their is a lot of road transport involved.
Every VW comes with carpet mats as standard. If you can get it serviced somewhere else do that. Plenty of mats on eBay worth the money.
If you order a car now that might take quite a while to arrive, I can not see many dealers agreeing to give you the price they said in a few months time.
I’m afraid your knowledge of the NHS Salary sacrifice scheme is about as accurate as the Telegraph’s reporters knowledge of Motability. The savings from the scheme come from sacrificing salary before tax,national insurance and Pension premiums are taken out. As with other schemes the main benefit is to higher rate taxpayers, however most NHS workers dont pay higher rate tax and so dont benefit to the same extent. To join the scheme you have to earn at least £27k per annum and without extensive overtime the majority of staff dont earn enough.
I dont know where you got your figures from but as an example to lease a Kia EV6 GT Line long range 2 wheel drive would cost £576 per month for a standard rate tax payer. I’ve worked as a Ambulance driver for 11 years and am on top salary but wouldnt qualify because my take home pay would be below minimum wage after subtracting the cost of the lease. So as you can see the Motability scheme is way better than the NHS Salary sacrifice. Please dont do the garbage press’ job for them, if you are going to quote figures please make sure they are accurate.
sorry, you don’t qualify what utter nonsense, explain how an NHS care assistant working in the community qualifies and you don’t, do they earn more than you? I am not going to say on here what I do, but I know exactly how many thousands of NHS staff have cars through the different leasing company’s and exactly how much they pay for them and by the sounds of your salary they would be earning a lot less than yourself.
My figures that I quoted were entirely accurate an e-tron in 2020 was available for £250.00 a monthI did not say their scheme was better than motabilitys scheme. I just said maybe she could do a story on their subsidised car scheme.
Maybe they should write an article about the NHS car scheme, where anyone employed by the NHS from the cleaners to the consultants can avail of a very well funded salary sacrifice scheme. Audi E-Trons where available from £250 a month during the pandemic. And in 2023 went up to £340. Many thousands of cars leased by NHS staff who according to themselves have no money, and go on strike to get more money, yet they are driving about in some really nice cars.
If you get in touch with your local MP they will get an answer for you the next day. It seems to take someone like that to contact them and they will do it immediately.
I see on the VW configurator you can now add the IQ lights with Dynamic indicators to the r-line edition for £475.00. This was not available a couple of weeks ago.
It does say online if you are not in receipt of DLA or PIP you can still get a blue badge, but you will need a letter from your doctor to explain why you need the badge. That is in N.Ireland it may be different in England, Wales and Scotland.
