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Do we have any evidence that Motability are actually going to put a total ban on people being able to extend their lease for an extra 2 year and if so when does it start.
I always have to pay a large AP to get a high spec car that meets my disability and can only afford that high AP if I am able to spread the cost over a five year period. I will not be happy if I find out after the 3 year that I cannot extend a car that has only done 9 thousand miles.
I wonder how much this is to do with them not being able to shift 5 year old EVs with batteries improving so fast.
I looked at the I5 but it was too high personally, for me to slide onto the seat and although it has a larger cubic capacity on paper, than the I6, it has a 10 cm shorter boot floor to hold the wheelchair and I am not sure how much practical use some of these cubic capacity measurements are as the extra space is of no great use to some who need a folding wheelchair put in the boot, as the 5 is quite a cut back hatch.
But things are definitely getting trickier for a lot of wheelchair users which the Motability principle was largely and originally built on to cater for, before expanding to more varied disabilities.
Motability needs to expand their range to cater for people’s very personal disability needs. There seems to be an attitude of some at Motability that If you are in a wheelchair and cannot get into or out of an SUV, then you should go for a WAV, which is not always the answer. There is a big need for the new Passat and Superb estates to be on the list.
PUG 3008 had to swap it after 9 months due to so many problems, all of them electrical.
I’ve been having problems with my Ariya electrics. At the moment it’s been 6 different issues with the last being in the workshop for nearly 3 weeks, but I think I’ll stick with it for now.
That is why I ended up going for mechanical hand controls instead of electric hand controls, as I (rightly or wrongly) thought, enough electrics to potentially go wrong in my new Ioniq 6 EV without adding more electronics.
Fortunately I have never had a car that I thought was a mistake and regretted, as I do my homework beforehand, although I have never had a test drive beforehand as it would need hand controls and I think it would be a different feeling from having a test drive as a passenger.
Although having said that, it is obviously down to luck if you get a Friday Afternoon car with loads of faults that you could not possibly have foreseen. Fortunately so far that has not happened to me in the 11 Motability cars that I have had, bought new (1) and leased (10).
That’s great Pops, they never asked me about getting the car treated inside and out with Autoglym, but I would have been interested and may ask the dealer about it, as I am not physically capable of taking care of the car beyond a car wash.
Carmad, I hope you love your new car and and I/we all look forward to getting feedback from you on how you like find it. I am expecting to get my Ioniq 66 in time for Christmas, as I have ordered my hand controls which should be in the start of next week and have registered my personalised number plate, just waiting on DVLA sending out the paperwork.
Surely if two were not your fault, then you have effectively only had two claims against you, I do not mean that you do not declare the two claims that were not your fault, but I am assuming they must have been paid out by the other insurer and should not be held against you.
I actually like the screen placement and, if they were more common, would consider the cameras but living in a relatively poor town, I feel they could be liable to targeting from the feckless and jealous youths. That said, if I was offered a car that had them and given a decent deal on the camera price, I could be persuaded.
You can guarantee the the dickheads would consider them as a target! Asides the mirrors, Hyundai have a useful feature of being able to activate the reverse camera when driving. A fearure I use alot ?
Yes I agree, you can do it with my Kia Optima and when going on holiday and the estate was full to capacity, I used it as a centre rear mirror. I think the 360 camera is an excellent addition, especially if driving a hand controlled car.
Yup. Mark its a steep learning curve. Trying 2 charging points an failed miserably. The first one, you needed a card. Moved on to an instavolt…great it accepts swipe…done that then pulled out the charging pistol, it couldnt reach the port. I installed the app for the first charger, and it charged fine. 30 mins and charged it to 88%. Right next to a Starbucks…lol. It just keeps you on your toes, new technology…lol.
The energy firms and car manufacturers should fund day and night classes for people who have just got EV’s, thinking of getting an EV or just want to understand more about EV’s at this stage as a lot of people must be frightened off or at least put off by the complexity of the whole issue of EV’s and don’t know enough about the subject to take the plunge and go for one as their next car.
Also as we all know and have said, the infostructure in this country has to expand beyond what is currently needed to show people that they can take that step and buy an EV with the assurance that it will be able to cope with their current and future needs.
They cannot expect the people to go for EV’s with the knowledge that if enough of us get one then the infostructure will follow, it just won’t work, people have to see that the infostructure is here and now before most people will consider making that step onto EV’s.
I would argue that the £750 NCP is for everybody and can be taken off the AP then that would leave the AP at £1,350 which would mean that it is less than the 50% of the grant left to pay.
If you went for a car at £999 and took of the £750 then you are effectively only getting a £249 grant. Nobody should loose out on the £750 NCB as
it is a separate and one time only offer by Motability Operations where as the grant is payed by Motability the charity.
The good condition bonus is a totally separate issue as you will not know if you are even getting it until after the whole transaction is over.
I would put that argument to the grants people.
Great news Callmejohn ?
Cheers Kezo.
Hi Mike, No my driveway under my carport, is right next to my front door of my house.
The only problem is that Ohme have now asked if I can have the charger can be fitted right next to the electricity meter, but the other side of the house door and car, which i do not want the cable passing over the path to my door. They are saying that the cable will need to run and be fitted externally round my doorway externally, when I thought they could run it through my loft as we are only talking about five meters apart.
They also said that if it was situated at the electrical box, then there would be no extra charge (in a previous email), suggesting that if not, then there may be an extra charge although that was not suggested today on the phone.
Ohme said it would be some time in January before the charger would be fitted, which I can understand at this time of the year, with the festive holidays, although I do blame Ebeneezer for starting it all by giving Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off.
Pops I have seen the black interior and imho it does not look as impressive as the light grey interior which makes the car stand out, but obviously there are others who would not share my view. But as you say you are alone in the car for 90% of the time and no longer do a high milage, so keeping it looking new, won’t be a problem.
I have went for the Ultimate Metalic Red with the Light Grey interior, which the red will be very Christmassy for me getting it just before or around Christmas as it is in the garage next week.
Hi All, Just had a call from Ryan at Hyundai Parks, East Kilbride, to say my car should be in the showroom next week (ordered 4th October and original delivery date was April) and he will contact the hand control people to get the hand controls fitted. I asked about the £50 charging cost, but he said that was o.k. they would cover the cost of a full charge.
I was still trying to get the o.k. from Blackwood Homes for my charger to be fitted, after over 9 weeks. They were to get back to me today, but I had to end up phoning them yet again. But they have now o.k. it and will send me an email shortly to verify it, to forward on to Motability and Ohme (the next fun step).
So the only thing now is to arrange for the personalised number plates to be ready to change over, which will be the first time I have changed them to another car, I don’t mean physically as the garage will fit the new one with my personal number plate.
So was originally quite happy to get it in April, but it is what it is and I should just be chuffed to be getting a nice new (and momentarily, externally shiny and clean) car.
I think that you should be pointing out to the Social Services that if they have been billed by the care company for care that you did not receive, then that is potential fraud and it is the care company that Social Services should be looking into, who must have been supplying them with time costs when they attended you.
Also that seems a heck of a charge by Social Services of roughly £158 pound per week towards your care package. I think I would be checking that one out as well.
I think the best way of Motability promoting EV’s is to reduce the AP’s, as I for one would never have considered a Hyundai Ioniq 6 Premium with a £8,000 AP. However it was a different kettle of fish when they added the dearer Ultimate model (with almost everything I needed other than it not being an estate) at a very reasonable £3,500, which suddenly became a consideration which I went on to order.
I think the more worrying thing, than emails and phone calls asking if we had considered an EV, is if Motability is pushing EV’s, then does that mean that there is less likely hood of them adding large petrol and diesel estates such as the new Passat and Superb estates which a lot of it’s customers with wheelchairs or scooters plus additional medical equipment, need.
Could it also encourage Motability to raise the AP’s on petrol and diesel cars that they don’t actually want us to choose, as there is no way we can ever tell how Motability Operations actually work out the AP’s.
Here in Lanarkshire, white and sh***, with a couple of inches of snow, but claiming to be 3 degrees.
Stuart, It was Hyundai Parks, East Kilbride. It was not the rep that I ordered the car with that told me that, but I had not noticed that it was on the second sheet of the invoice, that they had emailed, even although it was not discussed or part of the invoice price I had to pay for the car.
The dealer even tried to tell me that it was now the law that they had to charge for charging the car. When I told him that it could not be true as most others were not charged, I just got a dumb look back.
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I must say I am with des, I think the car looks more different/stunning with the Gold and Black body with the black roof. But thank goodness we don’t all go for the same car in the same colour, as it would make it a boring old world. Any body else noticed that the two cars are different, the handles (especially the back door) are different.
</p> John the picture I posted is of a top model which has has the pop out door handles compared to the ordinary door handles. I also read that the top model has electric ones that pop out themselves and and others you have to press them to come out… Actually that might be the ioniq 5? I saw a lot of cars that day as Dacia, nissan, vauxhall, Renault, Toyota, Hyundai are all part of one building and all next to each other.
Are you sure that the Green one with the Black roof, is not the older model which has just been superseded with the model that you posted.
Kezo, two problems with that one, I don’t want to get a car with very little charge, as I have said on the charging topic, it is totally unlike picking up the car with very little petrol/diesel, where you pop into your nearest patrol station and top up in five minutes, irrespective of cost.
The second problem I am having is that Blackwood Holmes who rent me my wheelchair house, one of six with three (including mine) having drive ways right up to the door with car ports. However that is now over seven weeks that they have sat on their lazy incompetent A*** doing nothing and not giving me permission for Ohme to start work on putting in a charging point. The first five weeks falling on absolutely deaf ears (albeit it was in writing) and the last two and a half weeks with the manager not getting any further forward. The complaint will be sent a step up on Monday.
I ordered mine a few weeks after you then, wish i could have mine in December lol, i ordered ultimate red as well with the light grey interior.
I hope we don’t both turn up at the same wedding with identical cars, or is that just women that bother about outfits and things like that, lol.
Do you know what amount of charge you are getting at time of picking up your new car and is there a cost for it, as per my other topic, as mine have apparently put a £50 charge on, without discussing it with me.
I must say I am with des, I think the car looks more different/stunning with the Gold and Black body with the black roof. But thank goodness we don’t all go for the same car in the same colour, as it would make it a boring old world.
Any body else noticed that the two cars are different, the handles (especially the back door) are different.
Well there seems plenty on here who are perfectly happy with Motability making it’s millions at the expense of it’s disabled customers who it was set up to look after. So I expect that Motability thinks that it will be able to do what it want’s, without much objection and it is probably right.
I went to my Hyundai dealer yesterday Park’s, East Kilbride and the dealer (not my original rep) looked up my order which I ordered at the start of October and which was due to arrive in April. However I now have a delivery date of late December or early January, which I wasn’t really wanting my nice new car in the middle of a dirty dark dreich Scottish winter and also no longer having any chance of an AWD being ordered if added to the list in Q1, but that’s life and I shouldn’t complain about getting a nice new car.
They had another delivery of 5 Ioniq 6’s lined up, 2 silver and three black (although the sales person reconned one was blue) with one of them a First Edition, which I thought had been sold out. Interestingly 3 out of the five had the Digital Camera mirror’s, which certainly looked quite nice, as did the car’s in the silver colour, which would have been my second choice, after the Ultimate Red Metalic.
