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I was looking at the Motability site and noticed something odd.
When I last looked at the site, you could get cars with advanced payments of upto £2000 for War Pensioners and £2999 for DLA recipients. (This excludes more expensive vehicles used for wheel chairs).
When I looked today, I noticed that War Pensioners maximum advanced payments are now limited to around £1000 and DLA is limited to around £2000.
All the cars that used to be available with the higher advanced payments are now missing from the list of available cars, so it's not just that they have dropped all the prices.
This would have tobe a worry for me if this is not an error as a result of the recent website update. The AWD selection of cars has been decimated and the trim levels of the cars that are left are pretty basic.
Trying to get an AWD car with auto gearbox for an advanced payment of £1000 will not be easy, especially ifyou need some item of trim that is no longer available due to the lower trim levels of the cars. There are now only 12 AWD auto cars on the list, and 5 of them are AWD Mini Coopers.
I spoke to Motability on the phone on another matter and brought this up. I got a very strange reply. She said the new website could onlydisplay a limited set of the cars available on the scheme. She also said that the missing cars upto £2000 advanced payment were still available, but they are just not mentioned on the site. I pointed out there was nothing on the site to confirm what she was saying, so how would anyone know there were more cars available than were being displayed.
I could get no more from her, so I fired off an email asking for written confirmation of what I had been told.
So for those on here who might be about to order a car through Motability, these apparent changes are certainly something worth looking at.
When I last looked at the site, you could get cars with advanced payments of upto £2000 for War Pensioners and £2999 for DLA recipients. (This excludes more expensive vehicles used for wheel chairs).
When I looked today, I noticed that War Pensioners maximum advanced payments are now limited to around £1000 and DLA is limited to around £2000.
All the cars that used to be available with the higher advanced payments are now missing from the list of available cars, so it's not just that they have dropped all the prices.
This would have tobe a worry for me if this is not an error as a result of the recent website update. The AWD selection of cars has been decimated and the trim levels of the cars that are left are pretty basic.
Trying to get an AWD car with auto gearbox for an advanced payment of £1000 will not be easy, especially ifyou need some item of trim that is no longer available due to the lower trim levels of the cars. There are now only 12 AWD auto cars on the list, and 5 of them are AWD Mini Coopers.
I spoke to Motability on the phone on another matter and brought this up. I got a very strange reply. She said the new website could onlydisplay a limited set of the cars available on the scheme. She also said that the missing cars upto £2000 advanced payment were still available, but they are just not mentioned on the site. I pointed out there was nothing on the site to confirm what she was saying, so how would anyone know there were more cars available than were being displayed.
I could get no more from her, so I fired off an email asking for written confirmation of what I had been told.
So for those on here who might be about to order a car through Motability, these apparent changes are certainly something worth looking at.