Driving with a disability: how do vehicle modifications work?

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So, for an older driver who has for many years, driven all sorts of vehicles, from motorcycyles, to tractors to farm equipment to excavators with pedals and hand controls, as well as driving 4wd vehicles and newer automatics, as well as pedal only vehicles (ie: Hydralada's), what modification are they allowed to get (fully funded) if they now own a fully automatic 2005 Mitsubishi Outlander, and ONLY have a BKA on their left leg. Can they get a fully funded "transfer plate" adaptor fitted to both the passenger side and the drivers side, as they are both a passenger (at the moment until a prosthetic is (eventually) made correctly, to enable short alking distances (which I currently cannot do as the "legs" they have provided thus far, are ALL almost useless, I am currently using the "temporary 3rd leg" as the main one when working around the house getting firewood, or using a tools etc., (newly acquired battery powered weed-eater - as I feel unable to use the petrol variant I've had for a few years, as it's a larger industrial type, and rather heavy, whereas the little battery model with blades is very light and cn be used one handed). Such as this, a VERY EASY to use, and by the looks of it, very easy to install (it installs to the B pillar), so could I have one each side please.? Enable NZ came and assessed me for wheelchair access ramps, into 7 out of my house, but because they wanted to "completely obliterate" my current use of, and parking space for, my car - I wasn't keen on having to keep my vehicle AWAY from the house, down a sloping gravel drive, just to fit a MASSIVELY LARGE external wooden platform, (without even considering shifting the externally opening door, to an inward position - slightly higher, as it currently closes onto a small stepup into the concrete floored kitchen), mounted onto the existing rather large entrance (concrete) step, above a SLOPING driveway. It slopes away from the house towards a vertical concrete retaining wall, (rising to the street's grass verge - some 4ft above), as well as sloping fairly steeply towards the gravelaccess driveway past the house to the lower level garages and sheds etc., before giving vehicle access to the absolute lower level beyond, which is a large flat area another 3ft below the last single vehicle garage (now a woodshed). I NEED vehicle access to the front door, as that's where we load in all of our groceries, from the car, we also park the car there, as it's far more logical, to keep the car beside the front door, for quick entry/exit of the house& car, as well as keeping it more secure, rather than a long way down a steeply sloping driveway, which is then in full view fom the road, as it is also under a VERY STRONG "light spilling" LED Street light. (On a pole at our letterbox, some 3ft above our house floor level, which is itself some 7ft above the fllor of the big 4bay car garage, and the single car garage beyond, (the older one that we use as a woodshed) At the garages, is a short steep dropoff, into the rear yard, which I gained by using an excavator to force down a stone wall, and the gravel yard, into the back section, for storage of a LOT of other vehicles at the time we moved here. The other vehicles are now gone, except for one that is still needed, should we ever repair it. It had a minor motor failure, that means it cannot be driven, as it can't accelerate above idle. THUS, as I cannot get OUT my doorway, as the RAMP suggested would have voided my car's access position, and would have also extended far beyond the house, cutting off the driveway access as well. Apparently the guy needed a 6M ramp, from the small height we had at the door. The step is 3" above at the top end, (nearest the enclosed end of the drive) and 5" at the end opposited the toilet drain (a plate covered open access hole - which they also intended covering), thus the end of their "6M ramp, at a slope THEY insisted on having, mean a 6M ramp, from a HALFWAY POINT of a 7.5M wide house, ie: 3.75M to the edge of the house, and another 2.25 M into the rear driveway - destroying any access to any garage, or the back yard? What a dork. I wanted a "swapped side" font door hinge, that would have allowed them to NOT have an internally swinging door (it currently swings outwards) - with a far smaller ramp, down about 3" to the end of the driveway PATH where we park the car - meaning maybe not so far in, but fully able to get the wheelchair past the car o both sides.? NAH, not going to happen, so they cancelled that position. They also "poo-poo'ed" the idea, of switching an internally swung (the wrong way) glass panel / wooden door, into an outwards swinging (from the other door jamb) door position, to allow them to "bolt-on" a landing to the existing concrete landing there, which would allow them a fairly FLAT ramp, along the side of a 10M house wwall, to arrive at the corner of the house, where the car is parked. (Just 3.75M from the front doorway itself). Nah, needed a building permit, and structural work, to "fit" and it would need a baracade, down the entire ramp, as there was more than a 1.5M fall (from the top of the baracade they would have installed), but the latest building code ACT states it must be MORE than a 1.5M drop from the top of the landing itself, which it isn't, it is barely 1.2M to the lip of the existing concrete floor, thus a 4" - 5" lift above for a wooden floored ramp, would STILL BE within a 1.%M drop, and that means - NO SIDE RAIL NEEDED.!!!! Although I would have fitted a sidewall, and small roof over, for my (freely obtained, old non-working electric scooter, that I had obtained some years ago, that I (as an electrician) have fittted with different batteries, and repaired a few things, to NOW have a halfway decent ride-on, that I use around the property with or without a prosthetic on. No one helped me with the costs of that, and I doubt if Enable NZ enables anything else - especially for me? What I need to know is this. WHO will I go to, to ask if they will "fit" a pair of B-Pillar Mounted Transfer Plate brackets.? To enable me to enter/exit my vehicle, (I have trouble getting in & out of the left passenger side currently, and no way to get into from beside the retaining wall, as ? What do I do with the whelchair, with not having ANYTHING to put it on or in the car, if I get into the car first.!!! Currently my partner, herself not all that welll, has to struggle and lift the chair into the rearof our Outlander, and at not quite 5ft tall, and bad legs/feet herself, it isn't easy. If I had a decent transfer plate that hid away beside the B pillar when not in use, I could have the car the other way around, in our driveway, with the drivers door, beside ours, (if it's hinges were shifted to the other side, and the door made to swing the other way, as then all the unloading of groceries, and her entry beside the retaining wall, would make it easier fr both of us, to return to a (similar fashion to) our old style of driving, with me steering and her in the front passenger seat "complaining" (I mean conversing).

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Hello I have a 2008 Mercedes-Benz r350 4matic can it be modified? I can work my arms but my legs I don't have no strength.