Ex-Motability cars - buying them 2nd hand and taxing them

[raf_gti]

Scuba_steve said:

My Wife has a motability car, she is in full time employment, not a pikey and takes better care of her car than most.

As someone else has said the car is paid for from her DLA, it is not a 'free' car. She paid a deposit in the high 3 figure region in order to have a car she likes with the appropriate spec.

I genuinely don't understand why someone, who has a full time job is entitled to a motability car.

[Scuba_steve]

raf_gti said:

Scuba_steve said:

My Wife has a motability car, she is in full time employment, not a pikey and takes better care of her car than most.

As someone else has said the car is paid for from her DLA, it is not a 'free' car. She paid a deposit in the high 3 figure region in order to have a car she likes with the appropriate spec.

I genuinely don't understand why someone, who has a full time job is entitled to a motability car.

Her disability entitles her to DLA, hence she is entitled to use this for a motability car.

It's a way of getting her about, on a bad day she can't walk more than a few yards.

Doing this and sustaining employment is not an easy task.

Why shouldn't she use DLA for this purpose? It is not a benefit, it's an entitlement.

Should she be paying through the nose for an adapted vehicle because she works?

Edited by Scuba_steve on Wednesday 3rd November 18:21

[Egbert Nobacon]

hurstg01 said:

My brother-in-law is in the process of buying a new [to him, 2nd hand to everyone else] ex-motability car. Low miles, very few scuffs, quite cheap etc but has no tax....

Now, on his v5 it states the vehicle category is for disability, and he has been told by the garage he is using that he needs to go to a local DVLA office, rather than the normal post office, to get his road tax and get the vehicle category changed from disability to a normal vehicle category.

Has anyone ever done this, and what information does he need to take with him to make the change as hassle-free as possible [I hate to think what he will say to the DVLA if he travels miles to get to his nearest one [Reading I think...] and they tell him he hasnt got all the info needed ]

If he gets stopped just tell him to get out and walk like a spacker ....

[stevemcgill]

wolf1 said:

Rich_W said:

95% of Motorbility customers are scum! They just trash the cars, then hand it back and go again. I would argue that maybe 1/3rd of the motorbility customers ACTUALLY deserve the car too! Scams left, right and centre! Also they are invariably not properly serviced. Just an oil and filter rather than the proper regime. just to get the stamp in the book.

AVOID like the plague!

I love it when people spout such absolute garbage. Don't let the facts get in the way of your opinion.

I live in an area where there are literally thousands of Motability cars swanning around, and I happen to know that 95% of the drivers of these cars ARE SCUM, they are lazy rogues that have never worked in their lives and know how to milk the system to get a free car and loads of extra cash every week, beats working for a living ay? The commonly held belief that Motability drivers are mostly genuinely disabled people is totally wrong in my experience. I used to work in a car dealership where there many motability customers getting, exchanging and getting cars serviced and I can count on one hand (over 3 years) the amount of people that had any noticeable form of disability whatsoever, they were mostly, smelly, arrogant scruffs that thought the world owed them a living...

[WeirdNeville]

Rich_W said:

95% of Motorbility customers are scum! They just trash the cars, then hand it back and go again. I would argue that maybe 1/3rd of the motorbility customers ACTUALLY deserve the car too! Scams left, right and centre! Also they are invariably not properly serviced. Just an oil and filter rather than the proper regime. just to get the stamp in the book.

AVOID like the plague!

I guess my dad is in the 5% then....

Seriously, what you wrote is quite offensive. Many people rely on Motability cars for their quality of life (or what remains of it).

Please think before you type. There's plenty of room for constructive comment on this topic.

Edit: Also just noticed the age of this topic! Sorry about that!

Edited by WeirdNeville on Thursday 6th January 22:26