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Preparation for driving test

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  • #32
    surime
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 301 ✭✭surime


    Thanks MascotDec.
    One more thing :D. I am not Irish and sometimes when people with different accents are talking to me it happens that I misunderstand.. Do you think it will be ok, to ask examiner to not speak to fast? Or he might not like it?
    I don't have problem with english, its just sometimes with older people I have problem. ( he might be old and from country or something:confused:)


  • #33
    MascotDec85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭MascotDec85


    surime wrote: »
    Thanks MascotDec.
    One more thing :D. I am not Irish and sometimes when people with different accents are talking to me it happens that I misunderstand.. Do you think it will be ok, to ask examiner to not speak to fast? Or he might not like it?
    I don't have problem with english, its just sometimes with older people I have problem. ( he might be old and from country or something:confused:)
    Testers are well used to testing people who aren't from Ireland. They won't mind you mentioning it at all. They give very clear instructions. If you don't understand just ask them to repeat it


  • #34
    Chickabic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭Chickabic


    Observation is really the biggest thing apart from not knocking down someone.

    I had to open my bonet and point out where certain things was, I hadn't a clue nor how to open the bonet. :eek: Needless to say I failed.


  • #35
    surime
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 301 ✭✭surime


    Chickabic wrote: »

    I had to open my bonet and point out where certain things was, I hadn't a clue nor how to open the bonet. :eek:.

    ;) not bad! I even know where and how to fill wind screen liquid! ( have done myself last weekend!) :pac:


  • #36
    Mr_Maestro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭Mr_Maestro


    MascotDec85 wrote: »
    Whilst in the first 3 or 4 in the queue stay in first so you are ready.

    The handbrake doesn't need applied on a flat road. Apply it if you want to

    I wouldn't do this if I was you. If you are in first with no handbrake on while waiting at a traffic light you will lurch forward and you may jolt forwards if the person behind hits you. Instead of damaging your own car and driving into the back of somebody, use the handbrake and worry about the first gear when the first car starts to move.

    If you are the first car, being in first with the handbrake on is the best method.


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  • #37
    surime
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 301 ✭✭surime


    Mr_Maestro wrote: »
    you will lurch forward and you may jolt forwards if the person behind hits you. Instead of damaging your own car and driving into the back of somebody, use the handbrake

    I only use hand break when on hill really, otherwise I control my car with foot break and it never happen to me that my car was moving forward or rolling back without control, but thanks for your comment.


  • #38
    Mr_Maestro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭Mr_Maestro


    Well best of luck regardless :)


  • #39
    MascotDec85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭MascotDec85


    Mr_Maestro wrote: »
    MascotDec85 wrote: »
    Whilst in the first 3 or 4 in the queue stay in first so you are ready.

    The handbrake doesn't need applied on a flat road. Apply it if you want to

    I wouldn't do this if I was you. If you are in first with no handbrake on while waiting at a traffic light you will lurch forward and you may jolt forwards if the person behind hits you. Instead of damaging your own car and driving into the back of somebody, use the handbrake and worry about the first gear when the first car starts to move.

    If you are the first car, being in first with the handbrake on is the best method.
    The poster asked if he needed to apply the handbrake. The answer is no, you don't NEED to apply the handbrake.


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