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The KIA Sportage PHEV GT Line was on my very short list when I ordered something else on last Q4 price list and guested at an AP of £2,499 was an old stock clear-out so didn’t even enquire about it as I knew they’d all be gone at that price by the time I could order.
Same goes for the PHEV GT Line S model. If you look at the photos in the MB search engine you can see in the pictures the older lights layout so I think your dealer is right saying there is no PHEV cars on MB but there is the new model with HEV and of course a higher AP to go with it.
Sorry I can’t help but I feel for you Bandit as I too have always used Lodgesons remotes, 7 way for myself, and like you I’ve found them a bit expensive and tried to change to something like the Techmobility remote but failed to get any info on it.
I’ve e-mailed them on my last change over in 2022 and got no response and Motability adaptions price portal and the links within are, to my way of thinking and them being for disabled folk, well there nothing less than a disgrace.
I did think about going to a MB roadshow to see what’s about but the most easiest for me to get to, Exeter, did not happen in 2025 for some reason.
Thankfully for myself I managed to find a suitable car this time around that had an AP including the adaption that’s near on a £1k cheaper than my current car so I was able to stick with the Devil I know because as you know Lodgesons are good but expensive.
Sorry I can’t be anymore helpful.
From Motability website .. ”When do I need an MOT? If your car is on a standard three-year lease it will need an MOT test before you can hand it back. You can do this in the last three months of your lease.”
Interesting the email at 3 months before lease end because my mind was set on extending by 2 years then seen all the things about no extension that MB seem to be pushing too as it appeared not to be hear-say.
On day 90 before my lease end I had an email from MB telling me to get the car MOT that I thought strange as I can’t recall ever being told to MOT a car so early. So I wonder if extension are linked to the MOT taking place and MB make a decision on how the dealer says the condition of the car is in.
For myself looking for a new car is a nightmare as a disabled driver who cannot test drive and I’ve done so much research last Summer with the demise of my current car on the horizon I’ve put an order in for a new car now so water under the bridge as they say and with the charlady bleeding us dry I’m so glad now that I have.
I can’t say I’ve had any problems with wiper blades renewals, previous KIA car renewed at 2 years no questions asked and current VW renewed at 2 years and no problems. My other 3 Motability cars from years ago never needed there blades renewed, blades must have been more robust back then.
The VW was last Spring so don’t know if something has changed since then but MB are certainly scrutinising everything these days that sort of puts the “worry free motoring for the disabled” saying as nothing more than run of the mill advertising BS.
This is the message on the MB web-site…
New pricing updates
We’ll share our updated prices for the new quarter on Thursday 1 January. These might come later than usual, but we’ll update this message as soon as they’re live.
Who has called for your post to be deleted?
Here’s a startling fact, I once read that 1 in 7 deaths on our roads are caused by drink driving so 6 in 7 deaths are caused by sober drivers so I say legalise drink driving now.
Please don’t take this seriously but take it as a joke as in my post above and all your New Years will be happy ones.
BTW I’ve said nothing about kezo and have taken his advise on board on many occasion but a bit confused here as a thread might have been deleted or edited as I seem to have become a target for some unknown reason because I simply said we have too many experts in the world today and refer to media and over paid government experts who more often than not, get things wrong and I respect the helpful information often found in this forum.
Be it Covid, climate change, free cars for the disabled ect ect one thing we can do less of is EXPERTS.
Although it’s discontinued there will be unsold models still in the system so chances are you’ll be OK.
I was told by my VW dealer that the Touran was discontinued in 2021 but its still here. Sometimes I think they just mean there discontinued for Motability customers.
Motability have got itself on the front page of The Daily Telegraph again today, this time the headline reads “Motability boss’s pay soars to £924,000”.
Can’t see Motability being too concerned about disability needs as I’ve often complained to them about the premium I’ve paid in larger AP’s because of the need of automatic gearbox, something I’ve pointed out to them over those years that my manual driving licence was changed to “auto’s only” by DVLA directly because of my disability. They have never suggested any help or indeed any real answer to that complaint.
I do wonder how the 12% insurance tax will be applied or the VAT on AP’s, are we expected to pay up front for 3 years VAT and insurance tax or will we need to have a direct debit with Motability to drip feed the cost.
Just slightly off topic I noticed this morning in the GB-News app that Motability customers who leave the scheme could be hit with a 75% increase in insurance cost because of the lack of NCB and that many insurance companies do not except the “good driver” letter that MB give us on leaving. Then the half witted BS story goes on to say that customers who leave need to ask, wait for it, need to ask RSA for a good drivers note.
I’ve received a survey from them last week, has the same page layout except it’s entitled “Tell us about your recent vehicle application experience” so a completely different matter.
So mine, that I haven’t bother to fill in, is for how well the ordering process worked for myself and it went well so if I send it in giving full marks they might think overall I support Motability action or lack of action to the media and government BS.
I have in all my years on this planet seen a Government as bad as this They are incompetent,corrupt bend the laws to suit themselves the amount of lies that comes of Starmers mouth is unbelievable he will do anything to stay in power.
Be careful geome1 what you say, you could be put on trial in a jury-less court and sentence to life imprisonment for dissing the government. :>(
I must admit I was shocked when I had two tyres with a nail in them on the same wheel over a one year period only to have both renewed. With the first one that had less than 5,000 miles on it Kwik-Fit said it had to go back to MB. I can’t imagine they do that but perhaps they send them somewhere to be repaired because they don’t want to get their hands too dirty in the local shop. I’ve heard they can be repair but charge extra.
The other three wheels on the car with 3 months left of the current lease still have at least 5mm on them all across the width of the tyre.
Retail price for these tyres is around £320 each so two nail have cost getting on for £700.
I see that “Honestjohn” website is defending Motability more than Motability are doing so.
I can’t get my head around how we pay 12% insurance tax on something we don’t even know how much it cost.
Maybe its like the tea ladies 3p per mile EV tax when it was ask how they would implement it she had no answer other than they had until 2028 too think of something.
Making it up as we go along give us confidence in our future doesn’t it.
Just a thought, will we be able to use our no claim bonus to reduce the 12% insurance tax after all if we were private or business user we’d get a rebate that in turn would reduce the tax even though it would still be 12% of a lesser amount if you get what I mean.
What gets me is nothing is written in stone and things change with the wind. I paid £3.2K intending to keep the car at least 4 to 5 years then the wind changed.
I had the “time to renew your car” paperwork in the post this week. With the wind changing and the 3 years or else ultimatum, I noticed in the said paper that if I could not find a suitable car we may let you extend your lease, for Christ sakes make up your mind MB. As I can’t test drive cars because of adaption needed I’ve spent the last 2 months watching endless YouTube videos, hours on end about different cars so much so, I’m sick to death of cars.
I’ve now ordered a new car today before they start adding the VAT or the wind changes direction again.
No I can’t afford it but that besides the gear shift on the right-hand stalk would mean having a more complicated and more expensive Lodgesons remote control because I believe they moved the wiper stalk to the left-hand side of the steering wheel. While the wipers are automatic there are times when a wipe is needed when the auto wipers don’t work.
Looking for hybrid to help with running cost but at £5K or more AP plus another £1K for adaption and limited to a 3 year lease rules the Hybrid Tiguan out as does the Touran and going by what were seeing in the Tiguan forum the new Tigger seems to have problems.
No problems with the current Tiguan though and apart from the two tyres the only other thing I’ve had trouble with is the sunglasses holder keeps jamming but that might be down to myself lining the inside with felt to stop the rubber mat in there marking my glasses.
Ordering a Ford Kuga ST-Line X Hybrid tomorrow, top of the line with just about every extra you could need, even rear heated seats and sunroof all for under £2,300 AP.
I’m lucky enough to have only just ordered a car and been told via e-mail, that my current lease and my new lease will not be affected by any changes, but I am considering coming off the scheme.
Same here in lucky I’m of to see a dealers tomorrow but even weeks, or months ago my wife keeps saying to me we alto use all our life time savings and buy our own car.
At my age I can’t risk spending all that money, though it would be replace by PIP payment eventually but we never know what’s around the next bend and funerals ain’t cheap these day’s.
I didn’t know that but I have the same car as yourself and with my lease up in less than 3 months I’ve had 2 tyres fitted that only had about 5K miles wear on them because their self sealing tyres and Kwik-Fit would not repair them.
Anyway that leaves me with 6 tyres out of 8 to go so I wonder if I can get a credit for them. LOL
Need an adaption, there two a penny on the likes ebay and a few quid to get the local workshop to fit it, it wany be much if anymore than buying from the scheme
That maybe OK for the likes of hoist’s however I’ve approach Motability a few times in the past about transferring my remote control to my next lease and they have always turned me down quoting the insurers will not allow it for controls to the cars systems or if they did they’d have to be tested and that would cost more than installing a new remote.
£34k to clean and polish cars!
When are they coming around to polish mine.
