When a customer placed an order with a dealer ( when the grant was still available) they would normally make the application for the plug in grant, either that same day or in the next few days.
This is regarded as best practice.
However, some dealers preferred to allow these to build up and then process all of the grant applications at the same time.
This may have been down to staff shortages C19 etc.
It is now common knowledge that SOME dealers did not make the grant application in time, before the dead line when the grant was reduced, for what ever reason
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This left the customer, either paying the difference in price or cancelling their order.
MG deferred releasing the pricing structure for the new SZ EV face lift, until AFTER the budget.
At that time, not changes where made to the plug in car grant, because the COP22 summit was being held in Scotland.
It would have been politically incorrect at that point in time.
So, MG released the prices for the face lift.
After the summit ended, the following week the government announced that they where cutting the grant and lowered the target price when EV’s could claim the grant.
This badly affected the price of certain higher spec models of the facelift !.
MG’s idea to hold off on the pricing structure back fired because they could not now alter their prices, they had already released a few weeks ago.
It steadily got worse after this !.