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I remember when the Ukraine war started we were driving down to Cornwall for a week, unleaded was around £1.29 in Sainsbury’s in the Northwest of England when I filled up on the Thursday. Sainsbury’s in Penzance on Monday was £1.49 on Friday Sainsbury’s in Helston Cornwall was £1.62! I don’t understand how oil that’s already been bought goes up in price, the refineries must buy their oil weeks if not months in advance.
What if you’re not the person leasing the Motability car but are a named driver, will they give you any no claims?
Royal Mail has gone to pot over the last few years. We only seem to get letters once a week, from my seat in the lounge I can see to the bottom of our street, I can go days without seeing the postie then get 6 letters in one day. I bought something off eBay, a small flat item, it was sent 1st class Large Letter, after a week it hadn’t arrived so seller sent a replacement, they both arrived next day.
Prioritising parcels is nothing new, I ran a mail order business for over 20 years and used Royal Mail sending upto a 100 small packets a day, I’d constantly have to send replacements for items I knew were stuck in delivery offices.
I knew a few posties and they’d tell me they had dozens of bags of un sorted mail in the local delivery office. Its absolutely scandalous given the price of a stamp is now £1.70.
Wonder if they’ll take payments for fuel off credit cards even when cars are returned with fuel at exactly the same level. 🤔
I believe I may be the person you saw posting here who returned car with 1 key and got GCB.
This was September 2024. Missing key lost 18 months in. We contacted Motability to get a replacement, they refused but said it will not affect GCB and it didn’t, we got full payment, car was otherwise mint, saw it for sale a month later with the dealer describing it as “in stunning condition”.
Seems to me Motability can’t have it both ways, they can’t refuse to provide a replacement under insurance and also penalise you for not having a spare when you hand the car back.
As for keeping 5 years, at the end of the lease, approach Motability and say you don’t have the funds for new car and you need a grant for the AP, but you are happy to keep another two years if they let you. See how quick the grants team extend your lease 😉.
Our Samsung curved 50” tv is almost 9 years old and still going strong. Not sure if they are outsourced. Mother inlaw had a TCL which developed a fault after 3 years, she binned it. Mrs Joe keeps banging on about the Sky tv, but I’m not interested.
No need to tell Motability, just go to Kwick Fit or ring the mobile service (you can also book online), tell them it’s a Motability car and they’ll either fix the puncture or replace the tyre. Really easy to do, we’ve done this many times over the last 30 years.
Motability are understanding with early termination for good reasons such as yours, it’s when you’ve done 2 or 3 early terminations the start to question the reason. You’ll have to jump through a couple of hoops, but I think you’ll be fine.
Around 400 – I was looking for a car at the time.
We ordered December 2020, they had a load of businesses cancel cars so we picked up a Skoda Octavia estate that was in stock at a very good price, £750 AP for DSG mild hybrid. A year later it was in the region of £2k.
These Kia / Hyundai ICCU issues are annoying as we’d pretty much decided on a used 24/25 plate Ionic 5 as our next car. It’s a perfect used purchase as the warranty can be 5 years even on used models. I’ve read quite a bit and the latest info seems to suggest they have now completely redesigned the ICCU and have stopped supplying the old one. They’ve paused repairs until new units are ready.
@kezo, genuinely never seen anyone in the shops near me. Think they are taking over the high street, we’ve got a high street full of vape shops and takeaways. There’s three new takeaways opened within 50 yards of each other in our town centre, all selling chicken. Don’t know how all these businesses are surviving.
That’s usually the case with Kwick Fit, branch near our house always say our tyres are okay, but branch 10 miles away will always change them due to excessive wear.
I think I’d have pushed to have both tyres on the same axle replaced, not much of an issue if the car is new and only done a thousand or so miles.
We have the Go card, we only use it when we can’t use Tesla. The major benefit is your account App keeps a record of all charges showing cost and KW received, better than using a debit card.
@jojoe glad you found it buddy. I have to say that I hate outlook with a vengeful. I much prefer to use Gmail.
I do use Gmail as well, I used it for my business for years, have multiple email addresses, one for PayPal money received emails, one for each eBay store I had, one for Amazon etc etc. Outlook is my personal email account.
Have you tried search function?
Good idea Joss, that worked, I found it, but the location is showing it was in the Inbox, but it’s not there. Anyway problem solved, I moved it to the receipts folder from the search view. Still no idea what that button does.
Cospilot AI result
How good is a system when no one knows what the icons mean and there is no key to find it. 😂
Looks like Send or Outbox/Forward symbol in new outlook? Check in sent folder or drafts.
No mate, not in either of those. Cheers
@joejo is everything ok, given your question?
Yeah all good, I was having a discussion with another EV driver, she was convinced the brake lights didn’t come on when you used regen, I believed they did.
@Joejo Above is buried in here and also aligns with my first comment https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:42023X0401
I was sure the break lights would come on if the car slowed down significantly. 👍
Depends how big and how deep, has is gone through the paint to the undercoat? If you post a picture here I’m sure people will advise.
Apart from my rear drivers tyre the other 3 are at 3mm, I’ve only done 11,900 miles on them!, Bridgestones of course The other is at 5mm. Luckily there’s no excessive inner/outer wear.
Motability of course won’t replace them until 2mm despite their partner the RAC saying it should be done at 3mm.We have the standard 85, not 4 wheel drive X. We’re on 11,000 miles, the rears are around 4.8-5.5mm. The extra weight on the 4 wheel drive system must cause extra wear.
I’m pretty sure I read Motability help you financially if PIP is removed, not sure if they still do this but I’m sure they gave you a small grant to help with losing the car, or am I imagining this?
A few on here have got lease extensions after requesting a grant, they’d rather extend the lease than give you a grant to pay your new AP, they’d rather extend the lease for you. This is what @Kezo was referring to.
