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So I passed my test, with only getting 4 grade 2 in observation.

  • 11-10-2004 6:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    And I cut out doing my turnabout but still did it in 3.

    I seriously thought I had picked up a grade 3 because I stopped about an inch over the stop line at one turn.

    I did it in churchtown.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I purposely think he gave me a really str8 road back to the test centre so i would not pick up more grade 2. Anyway, thats a grand and a half saved.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    cheesedude wrote:
    And I cut out doing my turnabout but still did it in 3.
    They don't say "do a 3 point turn" they say "turn the car around" if it's a bigger car it's ok to do it in 5

    Just make sure to renew it in 10 years :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭Dingatron


    Congrat's. My wife failed last week. I sort of thought she might, when she nearly crashed on the way to the test centre. I kid you not! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I really thought I would have failed. I had a two hour lesson this morning before my 4:30 test and I was making an arse of the little things like not looking left and right a lot at turnings and not maintaining my position on the left. I was pretty pissed off afterwards as I started thinking it just may not be my time or whatever...

    I went into the exam really uneasy and picking up a grade two from not knowing the rules of the road didn't go down too well either.

    But was not to be. I passed. If I have advice to give, it is to study every single sign like the back of your hand, I could not have gotten off to a worse start in fact.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    I failed up in churchtown last week :( so according to QDs quote thats 1100 extra. Definitely deserved to fail though :p

    fair play cheesedude.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭a_ominous


    ding wrote:
    Congrat's. My wife failed last week. I sort of thought she might, when she nearly crashed on the way to the test centre. I kid you not! :eek:

    On the day of my mother's driving test, she reversed out of the driveway and ran over my kid sister who was 3-4 at the time. She passed her test first time. I don't think she'd pass it now though...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    cheers lads.

    I had an excellent instructor though if anyone wants it. Really got me spot on with everything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    If it makes anyone who has failed feel any better, I know someone who was told they failed their test for:

    "Grossly negligent and dangerous driving" ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    I failed my first test for driving the whole thing without a seatbelt, running a stop sign and not knowing the correct hand signals. I was nervous after having handed the tester my provisional license (which I used as a wallet) and a picture of my gf and a jonny fell out on his desk....

    'c


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I presume you are thking the yellow liquid ceptor!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    kbannon wrote:
    I presume you are thking the yellow liquid ceptor!

    For a change I'm actually not. I did my test in Waterford in April '86 and handed the tester my licence without taking all the garbage out of it. He was unimpressed, I turned into a ball of nerves and it went downhill from there, culminating in me driving straight across a junction at the top of Ballybricken without stopping and the tester nearly having a heart attack.

    I have since passed my test, however that hour in the grey Metro ranks up there as one of the worst moments in my life.

    'c

    Well done cheesedude BTW!!


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