Where did you guys get your driving lessons?
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Back in 1990 , i had around 19 lesson's all in as i passed the second time round.
Soo 11.00 or 10.50 i cannot remember. I can remember my ex drill instructor Dave from Camelon. He was brilliant.
I passed in a Mazda 323 . God im glad i don't have to do the theory. Seems they spend more time and money on theory than actually the practical.
Soo 11.00 or 10.50 i cannot remember. I can remember my ex drill instructor Dave from Camelon. He was brilliant.
I passed in a Mazda 323 . God im glad i don't have to do the theory. Seems they spend more time and money on theory than actually the practical.
In 1995 I had 6 hours with some OCD old codger in a Seat diesel @£18/hr(Worcester area), 2 hours with a random instructor who I picked solely because he used a Mini Cooper to instruct in(top fun!) @£20/hr(Worcester area again), then another 6 or so with another instructor in a Fiesta Mk3 diesel @£15/hr(Maryhill, Glasgow), followed by passing the test first time. I guess driving instruction is far less remunerative than it was 20 years ago.
Zad said:
I think I paid about £12:50 an hour, which admittedly wasn't yesterday. Chap was a local independent who had been recommended to me, ex police senior instructor and ex area examiner. Didn't just teach me to pass the test, but to drive too. Two things which are definitely not the same thing. I passed first time anyway, heaven knows how because I was sliiightly stressed that day.
Recently I am seeing a lot more "premium" learner cars. MINI, Audi A3, BMW 1-series etc. Looks like there is money to be made from brand snob teenagers and their parents. Who knew!
Hanging my head in shame, some 22 years ago i selected my driving school based purely on the fact the car he used was a micra with alloys and a bodykit!.Recently I am seeing a lot more "premium" learner cars. MINI, Audi A3, BMW 1-series etc. Looks like there is money to be made from brand snob teenagers and their parents. Who knew!
A guy called Dan Bunyan in Brighton area, £20ph a couple of years back. Really good, much better than the previous one I had.
His site is http://idrive-sussex.com/
His site is http://idrive-sussex.com/
p1esk said:
The Austin and Austin-Healey dealers in Scarborough had a driving school. I started out with them in the summer of 1957, with lessons at 16s 6d per hour, 82.5 pence in current terms. 
I'm now getting most of my lessons from ADUK.
Bloody Hell! That was expensive. What was the car? AH100?I'm now getting most of my lessons from ADUK.
We paid about ten bob per hour in the 60's. 10/6 IIRC.
I already rode a bike so my Mother gave me a lesson in her Vauxhall 25HP. First couple of professional lessons were in a Ford Anglia 105E followed by an Anglia Super (123E?) all 1200cc of raw power! After returning to the UK it was a Triumph Herald under the tutelage of an Edinburgh instructor whose claim to fame was that he had become the first Scottish IAM member.
Did a 30 hour intensive course (over one week) with BSM in 2001, can't remember how much I paid, but I failed the test at the end of the week anyway, with 16 minors, 4 majors, 2 serious and 1 dangerous fault. I put this down to just simply a lack of on-road experience, my instructor (a guy called Neville Lake, who was working for BSM but is now working for himself in the same area) was great - it was just too much to take in in a single week, and I didn't have enough practical experience of what can happen on the roads.
Gave up after that, didn't bother. Then, in 2004 I had some refresher lessons with an independent guy (Geoff Young) and soon got back up to test standard - and then used my ex-wife's car for on-road practice as much as possible, and after a few months of that I took another test and passed with 2 minors.
No accidents or points since (touch wood!)
Gave up after that, didn't bother. Then, in 2004 I had some refresher lessons with an independent guy (Geoff Young) and soon got back up to test standard - and then used my ex-wife's car for on-road practice as much as possible, and after a few months of that I took another test and passed with 2 minors.
No accidents or points since (touch wood!)
I think I paid 1 guinea or as it now is £1.05p a lesson as I booked 10 lessons and paid up front so got a deal. That was about 1966 or so.[i think, the memory fades as you get older but remember the price] At the time I was only earning about £6 or £7 a week though. This was in the Tunbridge wells area as you asked for the where and not how much, sorry to go off in a different direction also my dad would go out with me in my mini to get experiance then took my test and passed first time.
It was back in 1998 in a place called Lampeter. It was £15 an hour. 4 weeks, 3 hours per week £180 in total. All lessons taken in the rattiest diesel 205. I just remember being told to overtake a tractor and as we got to a small hill the car began losing power, causing the instructor to shout a number of expletives and bounce around in his seat as if this bizarre act would cause some sort of temporary performance boost.. It didn't. We just managed to miss a car coming over the brow... Ah the joy of lessons.
North Bristol area, independent chap who's IAM, and has done coach and limo driving services as well. As someone else said, taught me to drive, not just how to pass the test. Car was a petrol Chevy Lacetti with 120hp (I know right, get me...) until he changed it to a brand new diesel i30 two lessons before the test.
I was the first person to take the car out on a test at all, and he wasn't in it :-P
This was back in 2010, doesn't seem that long ago now. I distinctly remember clouting the fooking massive key with my knee, and turning the car off mid parallel park, in the hour before the test....
I was the first person to take the car out on a test at all, and he wasn't in it :-P
This was back in 2010, doesn't seem that long ago now. I distinctly remember clouting the fooking massive key with my knee, and turning the car off mid parallel park, in the hour before the test....
21 years ago in the New Forest. I paid £8 / hour for 8 lessons in a Citroen AX. My instructor broke her wrist 2 weeks before my test, so my Mum sat me up in her Fiat Panda and I, somehow, passed my test (although, back then, there was no theory or difficult stuff to have to go through. I suspect if I retook my test tomorrow, I'd fail miserably!!!
Vince70 said:
My dads Austin Ambassador and it was free 
I also from time to time I would sneak my elderly 1968 1300gt Escort off the drive for a lesson, and also occasionally my mate would let me have a go in his rusty mini 1100 special.
I learned in my Dad's Austin Ambassador too. Was taking lessons in my instructor's Datsun Sunny then practicing what I was taught with my Dad. Would have worked well but for the indicator and windscreen wiper stalks being different ways around causing one too many (which would be one if it happened during my test)mirror, windscreen-wiper, maneuver incidents so I was limited to the one car I found the easier to drive. I also from time to time I would sneak my elderly 1968 1300gt Escort off the drive for a lesson, and also occasionally my mate would let me have a go in his rusty mini 1100 special.Edited by Vince70 on Sunday 25th August 18:51
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