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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.
It seems none of the Peugeot range can have heated seats. Yet a lot of the other manufacturers can include heated seats in their cars.
I wanted to make it clear that Motability and getting a new car on Contract hire that unlike other car finance or Contract hire or Lease Motability does not do any Credit Checks’ and the only thing that is the order of the day is that you have the higher rate DLA or PIP award for 3 years so to be honest it is a great Scheme for Disabled.
you only need to have the award for 12 months to qualify for a car. Many people were able to get a mortgage to buy a house years ago because they had a DLA award for life or indefinitely. The lender at the time knew they were going to get the loan paid back because of the lifetime award.
Belfast can I ask what you mean 750 and 250?
£750 new car payment from motability if you order a car in 2023 and the rest of the good condition bonus that is owed. I got £350 and have another £250 to get from them. That makes up the £1000.00
You can have a boot strap installed for £60, we have one. It hangs down about 18 inches, it means shorter people can reach.
it was the weight of the tailgate that was the problem. Maybe because the car we looked at was brand new, but I could reach it ok but couldn’t pull it down.
Ordered a Tiguan R-Line Edition yesterday. Metallic grey with electric tailgate, area view with rear camera and heated rear seats. Extras came to £1425 dealer took £100 of that. With the £750 plus the £250 that leaves £325 to pay for the extras. Was told VW are saying 33 weeks for delivery.
I went yesterday with my son to have a look at a Tiguan R-Line Edition, I could not pull the tailgate down it was that heavy even my son who is 6ft tall and well built had difficulty with the weight of it. I ordered one but paid the extra to get the electric tailgate. I was given a time of 33 weeks for delivery.
