Urgent scrappage scheme question

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Hopefully someone either knows or can help find the answer to this one. With regards to the current UK scrappage scheme for new vehicles, is there a restriction that forces the used vehicle to have been solely registered in the UK?

My vehicle I'm intending to scrap was first registered to a dealer in Sweden in '96, then registered in the UK in '97. As far as I can tell it fulfils all of the requirements as laid out on the Direct Gov website. However, I've read of an instance where someone had an MX5 first registered in Cyprus in '92 and then subsequently (and thereafter continuously) registered in the UK in '93, and the govt. refused to pay their half of the £2000 contribution on the new vehicle because it was an import.

I cannot find anywhere official that states this restriction, and wonder if in the example instance it's because Cyprus was not part of the EU in '92? I don't know if it was or wasn't, just a theory at the moment. I could just be a fluke case and/or a mistake.

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated - the MOT and tax expire on my vehicle on Sunday night so I'm trying to sort out a scrappage deal very promptly!
 
http://www.whatgreencar.com/news-item.php?Car-scrappage-scheme-proves-popular

The vehicle you are trading in must:
*be a car or small van weighing up to 3,500 kilograms (kg)
*be first registered in the United Kingdom (UK) on or before 31 August 1999
*be registered with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in your name
*have been registered to you continuously for 12 months before the order date of the new vehicle
*have a UK address on the registration certificate (V5C)
*have a current MOT test certificate before date of order for the new vehicle

Can't see anything about imports, only that it must have been registered in the UK before Aug 99
 
It means registered first in the UK before August 1999. It doesnt matter where else it was registered provided when it was first registered in the UK, it was before August 99.

Think very carefully. On the whole, 'scrappage' (Which isn't even a word, stupid government) is pretty much a complete con. There are better ways of buying a car.
 
It all hangs on how you interpret the 'first registered' bit. I agree with Fox as does the nice man from the DVLA I just spoke to, however he couldn't be sure and the govt. departments he referred me to (DfT and BERR) aren't working Saturday mornings. Might just have to go out on a limb and have a go.

Fox, I can't think of another way to get £2k off list for the particular car I'm looking at buying. They're only moving £400 or so on price without the scrappage trade in. My old vehicle is worth about £350 so I can't really see a better way of doing this.

I'm all ears though if you have a suggestion :)
 
Rather depends on the car you are buying and what you are trading in :p

Surely a 96 car is still worth more than 300 quid? Some guy on here paid 500 quid for a K reg Astra!
 
Yeah, didn't want to muddy the waters by saying that the new car might be. At the moment it's likely to be a Toyota iQ2 which for some might seem like a daft idea considering its price. But for me it's perfect for the short journeys I do and the build quality and level of equipment is excellent. Not to mention it's going to cost virtually nothing to run for three years. It's quite slow but I have the Caterham in the garage still ;)

My old car is a Volvo 850 estate which needs a new battery, MOT and tax. It needs about £200-250 spending on it to get through the MOT (mainly on brakes, some suspension bits too). It's done 190k miles and although the interior is good, the engine is strong and the exterior is still pretty good, it's the 2.5 engine and likes a drink. Pretty difficult to sell at the moment, particularly with it essentially being a non-runner.
 
I won't comment on the iQ because nothing I think about it will be of any use to you at all other than the fact I think it's a poor value car, so we'll talk about the Volvo.

A 96 850 Estate has to be worth more than 350 quid - surely? It's the ultimate utility banger, they are pretty sought after?
 
Thirty old non running Volvos are sought after?
Maybe if it had a years tax and ticket and didn't need much work then maybe but £350 sounds right.
 
Indeed. I bought it as the ultimate cheap tow car three years ago, and it's done that job very well. If you can find a '96 850 CD 2.5 with 190k going for more than £600-700 I might change my valuation. But even at best it would only be by £100 or so, nowhere near as much as the govt. and motor industry are [theoretically] prepared to pay.
 
Shad said:
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My old car is a Volvo 850 estate which needs a new battery, MOT and tax. It needs about £200-250 spending on it to get through the MOT (mainly on brakes, some suspension bits too). It's done 190k miles and although the interior is good, the engine is strong and the exterior is still pretty good, it's the 2.5 engine and likes a drink. Pretty difficult to sell at the moment, particularly with it essentially being a non-runner.
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You can't use a car which has no MOT for the "scrappage" scheme.
 
Needs to have a current Mot as stated. Also nearly every dealer I spoke to wanted it to have tax on it also for some reason.
 
I can't comment on the accuracy of the following but it doesn't seem unlikely to me....
Basically a workmates friend has been looking at getting a new car and took a quote at a local Japanese main dealer at the end of March, they didn't buy at the time. Anyway the short version is that when they went back and got a quote on the same car with the scrappage included the final figure was the same :(
 
Ignoring the wisdon of buying a new car at all, this appears to be one of the few situations that someone can potentially make good use of the scheme (provided the Volvo has some MOT left on it). The £1000 dealers contribution can probably be ignored, it appears very few if any dealers are giving this away, but if the Volvo really is as tired as the OP suggests then £1000 is more than he's ever likely to get for it privately.
 
Imo this only works if you are looking a buying a nearly new car already and are about to scrap off your old car anyway. For the same money as nearly new you can scrap in your old rust box and get new for same price. Yes you will lose money instantly on driving it away.. But you will still break even but have a new car and not one with 15k miles on it. Also need to be careful the price the dealer is selling the car has not risen dramatically since last year. People getting shot of perfectly good car for this are mad tho
 
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