Your worst driving lesson?

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**Timbuk2**

Is flipping your car a Grade 2 or 3 fault on the test?

I laughed at the fact that she "is already hoping to book her next lesson with us soon"

daveharnett

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

she "is already hoping to book her next lesson with us soon"

She can hope

Alanstrainor

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Is flipping your car a Grade 2 or 3 fault on the test?

I laughed at the fact that she "is already hoping to book her next lesson with us soon"

It's only a grade 1. So long as you can get out and push the car the over competently you'll be grand.

af_thefragile

^I guess flipping your car over is not as bad as stalling it while pulling off traffic lights.
Or at least you won't have impatient drivers honking at you!

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ha-ya-said-what

it's ok it was only a Fiat she flipped, tho the pic was pricelss lol

on another note to that tho what we still can't figure out, if it was dual control which i'd assume it was how come, the instructor didn't try to stop the car when she went for the accelerator?

Faith+1

ha-ya-said-what wrote: »

How come, the instructor didn't try to stop the car when she went for the accelerator?

Most likely fancied her!;)

Midnight_EG

ha-ya-said-what wrote: »

it's ok it was only a Fiat she flipped, tho the pic was pricelss lol

on another note to that tho what we still can't figure out, if it was dual control which i'd assume it was how come, the instructor didn't try to stop the car when she went for the accelerator?

He was too busy reading the pacenotes :pac:

ha-ya-said-what

Oh he just got sick of the Fiat lol

RayM

donegalfella wrote: »

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During my pre-test (literally 45 minutes before the real test), I pretty much forgot how to drive. I almost hit an elderly woman at a zebra crossing (if duel controls didn't exist, she'd be dead). Stalled three times while trying to negotiate an awkward junction (eventually pulled out in front of another car). Forgot to indicate twice. Clipped the kerb while doing the turnaround. Did 60km/h through a 30 zone... And a whole litany of other stuff that I've blanked out of my mind.

At the end of it, my instructor's first words were, "OK... that was disastrous..." As I drove off with the tester (in her car), she looked very nervous.

I passed though.

daveharnett

The Witness wrote: »

"I saw it roll on to its side and on to its roof. I hoped no-one was seriously injured and I was worried it would catch on fire if fuel was leaking."

For the record, I think it's worth pointing out that all cars have had roll-over valves built into the fuel tanks for donkeys years. Bottom line is that the chances of a car's fuel catching fire is an accident outside of Hollywood is almost nil.

greenie

^^ 'outside of Hollywood' :D

esharknz

Saw a learner driver indicating left at an intersection in Cork one day. Then they somehow managed to turn the car around what I'd estimate to be over 200 degrees given the nature of the intersection, and drive over the footpath and into a brick wall. Car looked a bit of a wreck. Thank god I wasn't walking there that day.....

DrivingTestTips: Brian

This is going to be added to the test...................
as the all new; 360degree Turn

Alanstrainor

DrivingTestTips (Brian) wrote: »

This is going to be added to the test...................
as the all new; 360degree Turn

Yeah right after completing a J-Turn.

DrivingTestTips: Brian

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Yeah right after completing a J-Turn.

Yeah.......

**Timbuk2**

DrivingTestTips (Brian) wrote: »

This is going to be added to the test...................
as the all new; 360degree Turn

Will you be uploading that video to your website? I always get it wrong - I forget to check my left blindspot before I do the 360. There could be a cyclist or anything there!

DrivingTestTips: Brian

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Will you be uploading that video to your website? I always get it wrong - I forget to check my left blindspot before I do the 360. There could be a cyclist or anything there!

No because if I made a mistake it would just cost too much to do it again

Michellenman

On my last lesson before my test I'd had a really good drive with my instructor, was pulling up to my house and somehow managed to just completely forget the use the clutch when stopping. Car started jumping like crazy and I managed to knock over a wheelie bin

Faith+1

Michellenman wrote: »

On my last lesson before my test I'd had a really good drive with my instructor, was pulling up to my house and somehow managed to just completely forget the use the clutch when stopping. Car started jumping like crazy and I managed to knock over a wheelie bin

I could just imagine that!:D

Degag

In one of my first lessons i tried to drive around a roundabout the wrong way. Cue the instructer frantically catching the wheel!

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Degag

donegalfella wrote: »

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Well, it was more of a mini one way system and didn't look like a conventional roundabout. It was still a :eek: moment though alright.