How to get a good deal on a car scrappage scheme (Podcast cut)
This is Money Podcast
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🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this excerpt from the This is Money Podcast, Simon Lambert, Rob Hull and Georgie Frost discuss how new car buyers can get the best deal from the car scrappage schemes being offered by dealers.
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| 0:00.0 | From your perspective, Rob, you've done the legwork on the schemes that are out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.0 | What have you found, if anyone is interested in doing this, does it impact what we've just talked there about the way you buy the car as to whether this scheme works? |
| 0:16.0 | Most of them are inclusive of finance packages so you can, you know, you get the same deal if you're buying |
| 0:20.9 | finance or if you buy them a cash so it makes it makes no difference but I don't think |
| 0:25.2 | there's one that's that's the same it's not like a universal thing it's like everyone's got |
| 0:29.1 | their own small intricacies like how long you've owned the car some demand that the car |
| 0:34.4 | that you trade in you've owned for a year some demand that you've own it for 90 days |
| 0:38.5 | others have no demand of how long you've owned it so you can just go and buy something off |
| 0:42.8 | eBay for 50 quid and you know trade that in if it's got an MOT and also the cars that you can |
| 0:48.2 | buy new are different you know there's restrictions on them Mercedes is a real key one to point out |
| 0:53.7 | because they're only offering their scrapage scheme with new diesel cars. |
| 0:59.1 | So it's, you know, if you're trading in the diesel, you've got to buy another diesel. |
| 1:03.1 | The new diesel cars that they are conveniently struggling to sell at the moment. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm not asked you about being cynical, Simon. |
| 1:10.2 | All right then. So you've been looking around. |
| 1:12.6 | I guess it's what is right for you. |
| 1:14.6 | I suppose first of all it's what car you want. |
| 1:17.6 | But what are you like in terms of the schemes that are being offered at the moment? |
| 1:22.6 | One of the best ones out there. |
| 1:24.6 | What are the biggest savings you can make? |
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