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Title: Motability cars
Post by: JC on 12 August 2011, 12:19
What a fooking waste of tax Payers money.

I have never seen so many people disrespect a car, so much so when they are sold off they go for peanuts, thus the government lose out even more.

What's more most of the drivers I have seen look more able bodied than me  :rolleyes:

Scrap the whole scheme - will save a fooling fortune

Rant over, got another sh!t box un loved car to clean  :grin:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 12 August 2011, 12:23
Thalidomides eating in the car again?

Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Guy on 12 August 2011, 12:36
windowlickers causing you problems again?
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: the_stink on 12 August 2011, 15:53
windowlickers causing you problems again?

 :grin:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Lewy on 12 August 2011, 15:59
You work for Vauxhall who make sh1t cars that no one would give a fcuk about anyway.

Stop moaning and get on with it civvy!
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Exonian on 12 August 2011, 16:41
I was having a nose around a Scirocco forum the other day, one guy was saying how he had a 1.4 TSI as that was the best model he could get on Mobility. When probed a little by the others on the forum he said his Mum claims the benefit and he drops her down to the shops once a week in it ... needless to say it all kicked off a little after that!!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Jack3559 on 12 August 2011, 17:08
Whoa!  :shocked:

2011 4MO Caravelle for £9,881!

Yes please!
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 12 August 2011, 17:24
I was having a nose around a Scirocco forum the other day, one guy was saying how he had a 1.4 TSI as that was the best model he could get on Mobility. When probed a little by the others on the forum he said his Mum claims the benefit and he drops her down to the shops once a week in it ... needless to say it all kicked off a little after that!!  :laugh:

*ahem. (http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/media/2011/06/mailonsundaycouk-scam-free-bmws-thousands-friends-relatives-disabled-luxury-motability-cars.html)

Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: JC on 12 August 2011, 18:35
You work for Vauxhall who make sh1t cars that no one would give a fcuk about anyway.

Stop moaning and get on with it civvy!

3 days to go actually  :kiss:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: gixer1400 on 12 August 2011, 18:42
hope its not this site it looks abandoned  :grin: :grin:

(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd478/gimp6969/Vauxhalls_Ellesmere_Port_-_geograph_org_uk_-_218503.jpg)
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: MrBounce on 12 August 2011, 22:02
I have never seen so many people disrespect a car, so much so when they are sold off they go for peanuts, thus the government lose out even more.

You should see how many I get to view every day at work...  :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Little JT on 13 August 2011, 07:42
I know what your saying  pal and they never have to pay for anything to be fixed most of the time it takes twice as long to do the work on the car cause you have move all there crap out first. Had one yesterday  with a near side front window switch door card covered in pop hat to change the switch then clean up after them car only a couple of weeks old so wrong
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Phil1980 on 13 August 2011, 10:16
Complete waste of taxpayers money, if they want a car get a heap of sh!te with the money they already receive in benefits.  There are people that genuinely need a car but obviously the system is just being totally abused at the moment.
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: gixer1400 on 13 August 2011, 11:22
a few years ago my ex was involved in an accident when the driver of a disability car ran a red light

 and crashed into her , all they were bothered about was that they didnt have a car not that she

 was hurt or that they had caused the accident in the first place  :angry: :angry:

I'm sure all they had to do was ring up and get a new one delivered but my ex had to wait untill hers

 was fixed which took 4 weeks  :shocked:

She never got an appology even though witnesses proved it was totally their fault  :sick:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: AudiA8Quattro on 13 August 2011, 11:39
Complete waste of taxpayers money, if they want a car get a heap of sh!te with the money they already receive in benefits.  There are people that genuinely need a car but obviously the system is just being totally abused at the moment.

There are also people, for example terminally ill, that really need the help.
Each to their own though eh?
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Bellend on 13 August 2011, 12:22
Make you right on that one. I see so many that we have to do bodywork on for Nissan.

They always stink as well.

Always check that cars you buy aren't ex-mobility, probably full of filler. :sick:

Get some weird ones tho, hand controls, automatic Micras geith the throttle on the left hand side of the brake pedal.

Makes for fun driving. :grin:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Little JT on 13 August 2011, 14:35
Yeah I work for Nissan to drove a note in the other day with hand controls as wel as pedals fun until I noked the lever when turning it around and took off thought I was going to make my own work    :sad:
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: luke on 13 August 2011, 15:32
if they're not safe to work they're not safe to drive?
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: bobbarley on 13 August 2011, 15:57
Man up!
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Mortimer Hill on 13 August 2011, 19:02
I don't think the goverment loses out twice.

From the Motabilty website:

The Motability Scheme enables disabled people to exchange either their Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance or their War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement to obtain a new car, powered wheelchair or scooter.

Essentially, the scheme is a leasing scheme,and the leasing rates reflect the end value of the car.

also, the car doesn't have to be driven by the disabled person, just used for their benefit.

An aweful lot of the cars make a very good low mileage purchase at the end of the lease
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Phil1980 on 13 August 2011, 19:18
I don't think the goverment loses out twice.

From the Motabilty website:

The Motability Scheme enables disabled people to exchange either their Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance or their War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement to obtain a new car, powered wheelchair or scooter.

Essentially, the scheme is a leasing scheme,and the leasing rates reflect the end value of the car.

also, the car doesn't have to be driven by the disabled person, just used for their benefit.

An aweful lot of the cars make a very good low mileage purchase at the end of the lease

Low mileage will count for nothing, will have been driven and treated like a piece of crap like most leased cars.
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Seanl on 13 August 2011, 20:58
TBH, most will be driven pretty sensibly. The clinically obese and arthritic pensioners dont tend to rag the sh!t out of their cars! Which lets face it, most with mobility cars are. If you can find one with decent bodywork, a simple valet will make the car a cheap-ish, clean used motor. Obviously provided it hasnt been modified too much with regard to the original users ability/disability.
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Mortimer Hill on 13 August 2011, 22:06
TBH, most will be driven pretty sensibly. The clinically obese and arthritic pensioners dont tend to rag the sh!t out of their cars! Which lets face it, most with mobility cars are. If you can find one with decent bodywork, a simple valet will make the car a cheap-ish, clean used motor. Obviously provided it hasnt been modified too much with regard to the original users ability/disability.

The vast majority aren't modified at all
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Uruk Hai on 13 August 2011, 22:23
On more than a few occasions I've been to the car auctions when they are selling off the ex mobility cars and to be honest most of the ones I've looked over have been in very good and perfectly acceptable condition, the used car dealers can't get enough of them !
Title: Re: Motability cars
Post by: Bellend on 13 August 2011, 23:04
TBF I suppose all the mint mobility cars don't come into my work for repair but the ones that do are seriously aweful. Don't know how it's possible to get in that state.  :sick: