Waiting time - Which Mobility Car Forum (2025)

Kinny

joss

@Lyn wright What vehicle have you ordered Lyn? Being as this is your first car on Motability,take time to have a good read through the Motability web site. Lots of helpful information to read up on.

Of course, you have found us which is Brilliant. So welcome to Which Mobility Car forums.

Please consider registering with us.

Cheers

Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.

mitch

kezo

Hi Lyn congrats on your award and welcome 🙂

Depending on the car you choose will depend on the wait time – a factory order as the majority are now have the longes’t wait times. Its ring around several dealerships depending on how far you willing to travell and asking if they have it in stock and are willing to let you have it on Motability. Certain cars such as Nissans Qashqui stock is available for Motabilty delivery within a month, other 3months onwards

Do you have a particular car in mind or are you open minded ?

When searcing for cars available on the scheme, I use Motaclarity rather than Mobilities site, as I find its far less clustered, and a bit more informative.

https://www.motaclarity.co.uk/motability-cars

Rene

Our first (and current) Motability car took around 10 weeks.

Our next car was ordered in November 2021, and is due to be delivered at some point in the next 8-12 weeks.

So we went from 2.5 months to probably around 16 months.

Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19
Current: VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23

kezo

Rene

kezo wrote:

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@Rene what car are you having, can’t remember, other than the Golf which I believe you cancelled

Huh, no, we haven’t cancelled the GTE. We did consider cancelling it after test driving the Megane E-Tech, however.. sunk cost Fallacy, if that means anything to anyone.

The Golf is in production (not just ordered, but actually being built since end of Nov 2022), so cancelling at that point seemed like we’d have wasted a full year.

Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19
Current: VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23

kezo

Rene wrote:

The Golf is in production (not just ordered, but actually being built since end of Nov 2022), so cancelling at that point seemed like we’d have wasted a full year.

??

joss

kezo wrote:

sunk cost Fallacy

Hence the “Sunk cost Fallacy“

Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.

kezo

Yes @joss an old boss use to say it frequently when he had been sitting on something for a while and want idea’s to add to the projoct, I’d often sugest a different way planing it. He would agree for for the the first few hours or untill later the next day or so, then either come up to me or call me in his office and bellow it in my here at the top of voice.

Not heard anyone say it for a long long time and along came Rene saying it, which made me smile as it brought back fond memories of an old boss and long time friend, sadly he’s no longer with us.

Anyhow I think Rene made the right decision:-)

Rene

@joss My bad, and yeah obviously, a sunk cost wiener isn’t really a thing lol. I blame it being late.

Lets hope that was the right decision, because the Megane is a cracking car. If only it’d arrive at some point this year, harumph.

Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19
Current: VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23

kezo

Rene wrote:

a sunk cost wiener

never heard of a sunk cost sausage. What is it ?

Rene

kezo wrote:

Rene wrote:

a sunk cost wiener

never heard of a sunk cost sausage. What is it

Because i originally said “sunk cost phallacy”.

You know what a phallus is?

Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19
Current: VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23

kezo

Rene wrote:

You know what a phallus is?

It doesn’t look like my description was alllowed ?

kezo

Rene wrote:

kezo wrote:

Rene wrote:

a sunk cost wiener

never heard of a sunk cost sausage. What is it

Because i originally said “sunk cost phallacy”. You know what a phallus is?

like a phallus mushroom or an erect percy thrower or resmbles an erect percy thrower 🙂

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by kezo.

joss

Err time to get back on track guys. “Waiting Time” is the Topic.

Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.

SammieH

kezo

SammieH wrote:

Hi we ordered a seat ateca on mobility July 2023 how long about does it take to be built and delivered , i have been reading a lot of months of waiting reviews. The supplier said will be done by October but don’t no if it will a lot of people have waited 10 months and more. Did anyone get theirs in the 3 months ?

Hi Sammie – my best answer is how long is a piece of string!

Alot depends on colour, trim level and whether you have ordered any factory options 🙂

kezo

joss

@Kezo deleted one copy of his post. If any more duplicates should appear, Just give me a shout and I will sort it out.

Joss
Current car: Peugeot 308 GT Premium 1.2 Pure tech Petrol.

Orient

BackcountryBob

Test drive last Thursday – haggled with Mazda dealers far and wide over the weekend – agreed order in principle Sunday at test drive dealer! (Stoneacre Mazda Halifax)

Off to Halifax tomorrow with my Daughters old Fiat 500 as PX for £3000 to put in the order for end of next week delivery. CX60 Takumi convenience pack, pan roof, driver assistance pack and Mazda protect. Just over £6K AP for a £55,000 car for £71 a month including most motoring costs except fuel. We sometimes lose sight of the fantastic benefits of Motability and perhaps need some perspective on just what a good deal it really is.

Glos Guy

BackcountryBob wrote:

Test drive last Thursday – haggled with Mazda dealers far and wide over the weekend – agreed order in principle Sunday at test drive dealer! (Stoneacre Mazda Halifax) Off to Halifax tomorrow with my Daughters old Fiat 500 as PX for £3000 to put in the order for end of next week delivery. CX60 Takumi convenience pack, pan roof, driver assistance pack and Mazda protect. Just over £6K AP for a £55,000 car for £71 a month including most motoring costs except fuel. We sometimes lose sight of the fantastic benefits of Motability and perhaps need some perspective on just what a good deal it really is.

I think you meant £71 a week there Bob, plus of course your £6k AP needs to be factored in, so the cost to you is just over £17,000 over 3 years or £24,500 if you keep the car for 5 years. Still less money than running one from new privately though. As always with Motability, the best value is at the top end of the scheme. Runabouts however are poor value for money through Motability.

kezo

Glos Guy wrote:

BackcountryBob wrote:

Test drive last Thursday – haggled with Mazda dealers far and wide over the weekend – agreed order in principle Sunday at test drive dealer! (Stoneacre Mazda Halifax) Off to Halifax tomorrow with my Daughters old Fiat 500 as PX for £3000 to put in the order for end of next week delivery. CX60 Takumi convenience pack, pan roof, driver assistance pack and Mazda protect. Just over £6K AP for a £55,000 car for £71 a month including most motoring costs except fuel. We sometimes lose sight of the fantastic benefits of Motability and perhaps need some perspective on just what a good deal it really is.

I think you meant £71 a week there Bob, plus of course your £6k AP needs to be factored in, so the cost to you is just over £17,000 over 3 years or £24,500 if you keep the car for 5 years. Still less money than running one from new privately though. As always with Motability, the best value is at the top end of the scheme. Runabouts however are poor value for money through Motability.

Bob your figures aren’t adding up mate! The CX60 Takumi with the Conveniene pack and pan roof costs £7995 – £3000 PX works out at £4995 andyet your saying its costing just over £6k?

We were allowed a 24hr test drove the CX-60 last week but after a couple hours we found the seats too short, as we felt it was missing pull up/out seat extender found on some Audi and BMW and missing enough thigh and patella support.

Within the first 45min – hour were excited as all was positive, then my wife started feeling uncofortable and her Sciatica started to play up, which made me think of the long distance drives I do. Once we got back in our Tucson and half way home my wife mentoned her pain was easing and pointed out that her Patella was at the end of the seats but the seats were also higher to.

It might be worth seeing if you can have an extended test drive which is a must really given you will have it for 3yrs 🙂

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by kezo.

Glos Guy