Motability

The Motability Scheme enables disabled people to use their government-funded mobility allowance to lease a car, scooter or powered wheelchair. In fact, since the Scheme was set up in 1978, Motability has helped over 3 million people get mobile with a vehicle

Scheme Benefits

There are currently over 640,000 people enjoying the benefits of Motability. The following are included in our worry-free package:

A brand new car, powered wheelchair or scooter every three years, or Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) every five years
Insurance, servicing and maintenance
Full breakdown assistance
Annual vehicle tax
Replacement tyres (and batteries for scooters and wheelchairs)
Windscreen repair or replacement
60,000 mileage allowance over three years for cars; 100,000 for WAVs
Many adaptations at no extra cost
Two named drivers for your car

Why you Should Choose Access Alternatives

Excellence in Quality Assurance

All our vehicles undergo thorough checks to ensure they arrive with our customers in excellent working order. We carry out a 130 point vehicle inspection, including checks on the following areas:-

We also complete a Full Road Test and our final preparation includes a Full Valet. Every vehicle over 3 years old will have the Ministry Of Transport test and will be supplied with 12 months MOT. We will make sure there are no advisories on the MOT, we like to go that little bit further in our effort to strive for excellence in customer satisfaction.

Includes AA Warranty dealer car extended guarantee

AA Warranty is one of the UK’s biggest and longest established providers of Warranty and other after sales motoring products. They deal with thousands of customer claims per month and have two hundred thousand active customers.

Free Home Demonstration

Delivered to Your Home

Free vehicle delivery/ handover and familiarisation

Part exchange welcome

All types of vehicle considered in part exchange both cars and wheelchair accessible vehicles

Wheelchair accessible vehicles bought for cash

Finance available

Frequently Asked Questions

Am I eligible to join the Motability Scheme?

To be eligible to lease through the Motability Scheme, you must be in receipt of one of the following allowances:

Higher Rate Mobility Component of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
Enhanced Rate of the Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement (WPMS)
Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP).

You will need to have at least 12 months remaining on your allowance when you apply.

Can I get a Blue Badge?

The Blue Badge scheme provides a range of parking benefits for disabled drivers and passengers. Blue Badges are issued by your local authority independently. The Blue Badge Scheme provides a national arrangement of parking concessions primarily for people with severe walking difficulties who travel either as drivers or passengers. Parking Concessions provided under the scheme Badge holders are entitled to the following general concessions on-street.

Parking free of charge and without time limit at parking meters on-street and "pay and display" on street parking.
Exemption from limits on parking times imposed on other users.
Parking on yellow lines for up to three hours in England and Wales, or without any time limit in Scotland.

The scheme does not apply to off-street car parks such as supermarket or local authority car parks. For more information please visit direct.gov.uk

Disabled tax disc (Vehicle Excise Duty)

Some disabled people can get Exemption of VED for one car. You, or someone you nominate, may have a free ‘tax disc' if you get:

high rate DLA mobility component
enhanced rate PIP mobility component
armed forces independence payment
war pensioners supplement

As a general rule, those of our customers who have become disabled after retirement date, will not receive the Road Fund Licence exemption. Full details are available on DVLA leaflet V188. To apply for the DLA 404 exemption certificate contact: Disability Carer Benefits Directorate Warbreck House Warbreck Hill Blackpool FY2 0YE Te 0345 7123456

Do I have to pay VAT ?

We get many calls about the VAT status of the vehicles. As a general rule, if the vehicle is purchased for the use of a person who uses a wheelchair, the VAT will be charged at 0% i.e. no VAT will be charged. If the vehicle is purchased for a commercial purpose e.g. Private Hire, Taxis etc. then VAT will be charged on top of our prices shown at 20%.

Will I fit in the vehicle (WAV)?

As general guide please use the maximum internal headroom measurement as a guide to whether you will fit in properly. This is given on the vehicle information. This is the starting point. To check your height while sat in your wheelchair you will need someone to assist you with this. Make sure you are sat comfortably in your wheelchair with your usual cushions etc. Position the wheelchair so the back wheels are parallel to a wall, then lay something flat like a book horizontally across the top of your head. Then measure from the floor to the top of your head. This will give you your floor to head height – this should be less than the internal headroom measurement of the vehicle you are considering. For other measurements, please ring us for the specific vehicle you are interested in.

What are the Advantages of the Nearly New WAV Scheme?

Not all used WAV’s are available on the Motability scheme, only a selected few are made available these are shown on our website by having the Motability logo in the description. The Nearly New Scheme offers the following advantages ;

As with all Motability lease schemes, insurance, servicing, and maintenance, RAC Breakdown Cover and tyre and windscreen replacement are all included for worry free motoring.
Three year lease with 60,000 mileage allowance.
Offer good saving on the equivalent new wheelchair accessible vehicle from NIL advanced payment.
All vehicles are no more than two and a half years old.
Low mileage.

Quick delivery - if it's in stock we can get your Nearly New wheelchair accessible vehicle to you with a significantly reduced delivery time than a new WAV

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Motability

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