FabGuys.com forum: Passing your driving test

By *MB9 OP Man
2 weeks ago

Northampton

First time or more?

I passed 2nd time after nearly killing me and the instructor on my first test! 🫣

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By *opcock58Man
2 weeks ago

Helston

Passed four classes 1st time for each

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By (user no longer on site)
2 weeks ago

First time with no faults except not knowing one Highway Code sign. Examiner suggested I was a very capable driver but I need to read the Highway Code. 2 weeks after my 17th, forty years ago and STILL haven’t read it.

My class one first time again with no faults although on my reverse I was watching my trainer who said ‘just get it straight and watch me in coffee room, when the cup is at my mouth you’re far enough and stop!’ 37 years ago.

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By *ld4yngfunMan
2 weeks ago

Edinburgh

I passed my car licence at age 19 1st time. Got a job as a chauffeur/ gardener before I was 20. Passed my then PSV test, 1st time, at 21

&,started driving double decker buses.

I am 84 now,& still driving.

Not had any accidents.

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By *eedsbearmanMan
2 weeks ago

Leeds

Passed first time, aged 17 after 10 lessons

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By *xplore moreTV/TS
2 weeks ago

cockermouth

B, B+E, C1, C1+E

all paseed first time 😜☺️

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By *luteus maxMan
2 weeks ago

Waterlooville at night

1st time on Mike, 2nd in car

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By *luteus maxMan
2 weeks ago

Waterlooville at night

Stupid auto correct. That was motor bike not Mike of course

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By *eam Bi MatureMan
2 weeks ago

Leamington

First time on bike 1981, first time in car, NYE 1986.

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By (user no longer on site)
2 weeks ago

"I passed my car licence at age 19 1st time. Got a job as a chauffeur/ gardener before I was 20. Passed my then PSV test, 1st time, at 21

&,started driving double decker buses.

I am 84 now,& still driving.

Not had any accidents."
Passed first time.

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By *rancd2TV/TS
2 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

I passed on my first completed test, although it was actually my second test.

On my first test a driver had a heart attack and that caused him to crash into the car I was driving, so my test concluded after about 10 minutes without a result.

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By *ameshertsMan
2 weeks ago

Hertford

"Stupid auto correct. That was motor bike not Mike of course"

And there was me thinking, lucky Mike!

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By *tmguylookingMan
2 weeks ago

Chesterfield

Took me 3 goes to pass mine, finally in novenber 1982 I passed, on what I thought was my worst performance. 44yrs later, after a proffesional driving career lasting about 35 yrs, I've retired from driving for a living, with a clean driving license, I don't think I've done too bad, especially when I've been driving over 100,000 miles a year for far too many years. In fact I think I've only ever had a few speeding tickets, well 5 or 6, and no other offences. Well worth the 10 months of lessons at about £6 a lesson, and the 3 tests at about £20 a time in total. Yep, I know that sounds cheap, but when you're earning £36 a week, it didn't seem cheap at the time.

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By *ldmanMan
2 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

1st time for motorcycle, in 1979, then 1st time in 1980 for car test.

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By *ohnnyangerMan
2 weeks ago

No one bothered to show me how to ride a bike a kid, so there's no way in hell id ever even try a driving lesson!

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By *erscumdumpMan
2 weeks ago

Watford & Worth Matravers

First time after an intensive 20 hr course. Went on to do IAM Roadsmart. Haven't stopped learning since.

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By *LASGOW 60s GUYMan
2 weeks ago

Glasgow

First time, 10 weeks after my 17th birthday. Parallel parked at the end and the examiner said he couldn't fail me because he didn't think I could get my car into that size of space and I did it first time. Goes back to my instructor's mantra of ' if you can't park it, you shouldn't be driving it '

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By *ernne2Man
2 weeks ago

shoebury

"I passed my car licence at age 19 1st time. Got a job as a chauffeur/ gardener before I was 20. Passed my then PSV test, 1st time, at 21

&,started driving double decker buses.

I am 84 now,& still driving.

Not had any accidents."
seen laods in rear veiw mirror lol

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By *ustOneBearMan
2 weeks ago

Neath

Passed car first time at 19. Bike first time at 21 and class 1 first time at 21.

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By *ef123Man
2 weeks ago

Felixstowe

I passed the first time in winter in wales no one else about

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By *astguy7Man
2 weeks ago

Herefordshire

Passed first time exactly a month after my 17th birthday. No theory test then and no long wait for a test. Set off for 6th form in my mum's Volkswagen Polo, with the stereo radio cassette on full volume and the sunroof open- I thought I super cool!

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By *ibblefishMan
2 weeks ago

louthish

First time is sheer luck, all the best drivers pass on their second attempt!!

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By *edBearMan
2 weeks ago

Manchester

Second time for me. Was convinced I'd done worse than the first test but got through.

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By *etmepants offMan
2 weeks ago

dartford

Motor bike, car, pcv, lgv all passed 1st time

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By *hubbyman10Man
2 weeks ago

Bloxwich

Second time, most of my test was spent stuck in traffic lol

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By *eter169Man
2 weeks ago

stoke

First time.

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By *jh59Man
2 weeks ago

Hinckley

Second time ,examiner said I failed on hand signals,shows how long a go that was

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By *ldmanMan
2 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

"Second time ,examiner said I failed on hand signals,shows how long a go that was"

Yes, mine had a few hand signals, such as slowing down at a zebra crossing!

I kid you not!

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By *ildwestheroMan
2 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Too embarrassed to say how many time before I pass my car test. Put a lot of it down to a bad instructor who made me nervous. Passed advanced first time and also motorbike first time.

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By *eekeeper1000Man
2 weeks ago

Richmond. North Yorkshire

First time. Mid 30's. Couldn't afford it before then. Loads of cycling helped.

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By *onduMan
2 weeks ago

North Angus

First time but I was 29, I much preferred the drink when I was younger and felt it safer to not have access to a car

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By *ate500TV/TS
2 weeks ago

Newcastle/Durham

First time and not long after my 17 birthday but that was a million years ago.

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By *oxymusicMan
2 weeks ago

Cowbridge

3rd time.

Since then, not far off 40 years of driving and around a million miles driven.

(Have had a UK/European delivery business & cab driver in the past)

Never once had any endorsements or any at fault accident and a million miles is equivalent of about 40 trips around the world or about 2 trips to the moon and back.

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By *dstefiMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

1st time. Even dodged the dreaded emergency stop because a piss artist lurched into the road in front of me during the test and I braked and avoided him without endangering anyone else so the examiner said my awareness was on point and we didn't need to do that bit.

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By *ipirateMan
2 weeks ago

Glasgow

1st time

Way back when it was easier and much much cheaper

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By *dstefiMan
2 weeks ago

Solihull

"Too embarrassed to say how many time before I pass my car test. Put a lot of it down to a bad instructor who made me nervous. Passed advanced first time and also motorbike first time."

My first instructor was terrible, really short fuse kind of bloke and I realised after about three lessons he was just stressing me out so found a much better one and passed first time as above.

Most of my lessons were done in a bog slow non-turbo diesel Rover 218, but just before the test my instructor got a turbocharged Citroen ZX and it felt like a rocketship to me

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By *ildwestheroMan
2 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

"Too embarrassed to say how many time before I pass my car test. Put a lot of it down to a bad instructor who made me nervous. Passed advanced first time and also motorbike first time.

My first instructor was terrible, really short fuse kind of bloke and I realised after about three lessons he was just stressing me out so found a much better one and passed first time as above.

Most of my lessons were done in a bog slow non-turbo diesel Rover 218, but just before the test my instructor got a turbocharged Citroen ZX and it felt like a rocketship to me

Sounds like mine. A stressy, bad tempered bloke. After a couple of failed tests I gave up driving for a year. I'd passed my motorbike test so had transport. Had joined the army by then and was driving all sorts of vehicles. Took the civilian test and sailed through it first thing on a foggy, icy November morning.

BTW I had to do an emergency stop and a hill-start as a result of a dog running into the road. The examiner was impressed.

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
2 weeks ago

North East

First time for me

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By *ick111Man
2 weeks ago

Near Spalding

Moped, motorbike, car, forklift, light aircraft, driving instructor all first time

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By *bonybucksMan
2 weeks ago

High Wycombe

I passed first time on my 21st birthday! Was a lovely present to myself. I hated driving lessons and was always incredibly nervous and used to hate it when that Corsa with the big BSM plastic cone thing would drive into the cul de sac. But it was worth it all those years ago.

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By *ishop666Man
2 weeks ago

ls19

All my kids passed first time

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By *ohnbi1965Man
2 weeks ago

Aberfeldy

Driving 1st,hgv,1st motorbike mod 1,1st motorbike mod 2 ,2nd.

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By *arrogateDadMan
2 weeks ago

Harrogate

First Time @ 17. Those were the days

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By *ndreaNWCDTV/TS
2 weeks ago

Paphos

11 am on my 17th birthday.. Passed..no lessons.. But i’d been driving motorbikes, tractors diggers etc since I was 10..lol Advanced driving course and test 2 years later.. 3 months later passed Bike test… after getting nicked riding a 650 Triumph on a provisional..lol.

Private Pilots Licence at 18.. HGV Class 1 at 21.

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By *erry 54Man
2 weeks ago

Letchworth garden city

1st time 1971 for car my older sister past on her 8th attempt around the the same time,she will tell you that she's never had a accident but seen a lot in her rear view mirror

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