Can you recommend advanced driving lessons in SE london

[thegman]

Hello,

I would like to start some kind of advanced training in SE london - any recommendations?

It is either this is take my cat B licence and go hill climbing.

[BOF]

This any help?

http://www.iam.org.uk/

BOF.

[thegman]

not really can't find anything on getting instruction. i have read about the test - probably a bit dumb but how do i find an instructor - and how do i know they are any good? this is prob a repost so apologies

[S. Gonzales Esq.]

If you apply for the 'Skill For Life' package from the IAM then your local group will get in touch. They'll have an organised theory course and will supply a volunteer observer to help you prepare for the test.

The observer will have been assessed and should be of a reasonable standard - if you don't get on with them you can always ask for another.

IAM is a good introduction to advanced driving - pretty much all the higher levels of instruction build on the same foundations.

At £85 for the course, it'll pay for itself many times over if you avoid even one minor bump.

[waremark]

Time poor and money not so poor? Look at

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

or

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

for recommendations for professional coaches - coaching and driving skills will both be well beyond those of an amateur from IAM or Rospa, but the price will be several hundred pounds a day.

[erdnase]

First time poster - hi guys!

I'd love to know of any recommended advanced driving instructors in the Glasgow area. I don't want to go down the IAM route (yet). Does anyone know of any good instructors in the area? If there are any non-professional enthusiasts out there, a bottle of malt and a spin in my Z4 is on offer.

Thanks in advance

[Don]

waremark said:

Time poor and money not so poor? Look at

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

or

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

for recommendations for professional coaches - coaching and driving skills will both be well beyond those of an amateur from IAM or Rospa, but the price will be several hundred pounds a day.

Our IAM group is currently developing a "one day" Advanced Driving course. It is going to be for Associates who are time poor (not necessarily cash rich). 10am to 4pm.

I reckon THAT will be bloody hard work. I'm tempted to ask the chap doing it to put me through it as a test/train the trainer idea.

The idea is that you get the usual eight drives in just one day. A week or two later you do a "cross-check" to check it's sunk in and then you do your test.

[petermansell]

Hi Gareth

I live in the London Borough of Bromley and took 6 x 1.30 our lessons with ROADA (ROSPA) and then the IAM test and the ROADA test in 2004.

The lessons were great fun and very informative and changed the way I drive in some pretty fundemental ways. It was also pleasing to pass the IAM test and get the Gold award from ROADA!

Just contact them centrally and they will pass you to local contacts who will arrange to give you lessons. It is very well worth it.