Driving test.........AHHHHH

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

well my test is in 8days!

the nerves are already kicking in!stomach tumbling, worrying loads!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

exciting stuff!

Site Subscriber Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 1575

on this new test I think you can demolish a building and still pass so you should be ok Laughing

Site Subscriber Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 2929

You'll be fine, don't worry.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I mind when I last sat my test 3 fucking times I had to sit it then he only passed me cos he felt sorry for me. Had lessons and everything!

When I was 17 not a single lesson went out passed!

I don't know how your meant to drive tbh to pass, not safely anyway.

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

head like a nodding dog on the mirrors, same with reversing, shame i cant do a russ swift style parrallel park, ive perfected those! but ive been told that its incorrect use of a handbrake

Site Subscriber Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 728

That's true. When I passed my test 1st time Wink

I was shown my test sheet. I had three minors Cool

. But one of them was for over use of braking. Apparently when I was going onto a roundabout I "braked too excessivly!". I informed the tester that if I hadn;t slammed on my anchors I would have plowed into then Scooby that came out of nowhere and flew round the roundabout at 50mph!!! He didn't agree, but I wasn't going to agrue Smile

I wouldn't worry about it. You'll do fine bud Wink

Newbie Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 15

My driving test lasted only 20 minutes, including the theory. Ahhh the good old days. Very Happy

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i remember one of my minors was not checking the blind spot LONG enough....lol talk about petty.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

know a boy in the army, the teser was retiring, he drove him round to tyhe tea room and bought him a scone and tea and he got a pass!

My mate Paul managed to do 80 on a dual carriageway and not fail, his test was only 15mins as well.

Site Subscriber Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 569

My test lasted about 30 minutes. He took me down a lane I'd never been down before so I had to keep asking him where to go Embarassed

Also driving out of the test centre I had 3 other cars behind me all watching me pull out. But passed first time so that's cool Laughing

Sure you'll be fine Dan. Watch out for Combine Harvesters though Wink

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

ooo arrr yarrr!

Level 10 User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 621

Good luck Dan. I sat my test 4 times! Unfortunately the first two times were in Bathgate just when they were having a crack down on young drivers because there had been a spate of accidents on a local road! The third time my nerves got the better of me and the fourth time I was shaking like a leaf (even tho I was sedated!), foot slipped off the clutch pulling out of the test centre then it started really chucking it down, hard, heavy rain which lasted the duration of my test. The tester told me the only reason I got away with the foot slipping incident was because I put the car in neutral, applied the handbrake and adjusted the seat and mat on the floor! Still I passed finally despite everything! Did it in my dad's ancient Pug 309 Diesel estate too!

Try to relax for the test itself, I was overconfident the first time, but a nervous wreck by the fourth!

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

ive got an action plan, that is to go round as if i am just driving normally, but i have a police car behind me, as i always seem to drive perfectly with the police behind me.lol.

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

my mate went the wrong way round a roundabout..

yep thats right.

went anticlockwise around it.

Site Subscriber Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 342

I failed my first test for speeding, doing 40 in a 30. Passed 2nd time

Good luck mate,i'm sure you'll sail through.

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 395

Good luck mate!

I'm sure you won't need it.

I remember on my test, my instuctor wanted to come with me, but i had somebody else examining the examiner.
Double pressure Mad

When the person examining me asked me to pull over and do a turn in the road i said no.
This was on a hill just below the brow so i refused and said i didn't think it was safe to do such a maneuver there and carried on driving until i saw a good spot.
He also tried to pressure me into overtaking a milk float in a dangerous place, so again i said i didn't think it was safe and carried on.
You could tell he was pissed off, but at the end of the day it's the drivers decision to make, not his.

I passed first time Smile

Don't forget to put on your green P plates once you've passed Laughing

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

lol they aint gettin near my car!

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

someones a bit cocky.

now i think abuot it

that would be brilliant..

looks like a small power car..

got P plates on it

get some nobber thinking there the dogs etc.

BANG!

c ya.

Site Subscriber Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 3547

oh im already doing that LOL, was keeping up with a mitsi gto! down a dual carriageway

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

gunna get some green L plates if u pass Razz