amazingtrade
Mad Madchestoh fan
robs did I not tell you about my planned trip to Perth, Sydney and Melbourne next year 

Hehe thanksDistractions used to be a problem, but I have had so many lessons over the years that it is not so much of a problem now.
I have the right attitude,
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I know full well how dangerious a motor vehicle can be, it is the phyiscal experience I need now.
....but it gave me a lot of useful imformation. Some of the course I have to say I didn't agre with at all (prob why i didn't get it) but there was some pretty useful stuff too.
My exact experience also, and I didn't take the test for the same reason BUT yes it's definately worth going along to, having a few lessons and if you get along with the methods and some of the info better than I did (and a few other full time drivers who happened to be on the course with me) then it's worth doing the exam - you'll feel good and should have cheaper insurance too!
Yes,
I'd have loved to have got it.
The Gods just weren't with me on the day.
I had a bit of toothache on the day......I was trying to fit the test in with (then) self employmnt duites........and it all went belly up. I actaully don't think I was too far off the standard required if it hadn't been for the fact I wasn't feeling very well.
Cest la vie I guess.
Indeed, not to worry though, if you've taken the bits you agree with and found helpful/useful then applied them to your driving having thrown the rest you disagree with in the bin as I have, then it was still a worthwhile experience![]()
I did mine in an auto which made life much easier (there's no difference in the qualification between manual and auto on the advanced test). It took me about six months of driving a manual again to get myself sorted out without brake/gear overlap, using rev-matched downshifts, etc.
I might shortly start looking at RoSPA as the next step.
I understand what you mean david - some cars are hard to drive smoothly. Various faults with my second car (galant GDI) meant it was very hard to drive smoothly, with enormous amounts of driveline shunt. I was planning to go in for rospa, but I found I just couldn't drive that car smoothly enough to actually get anywhere on such a course. Now I've got the Accord I will start to consider it again.
That said, at the point that I was doing my IAM stuff, the auto box in the galant wasn't ideal as the fluid was getting pretty old and it was horribly jerky on downhill, off-throttle 3-2 downshifts (my observer thought I'd kicked the brake!). A year or so later with good fluid plus improving my knowledge of the auto to be able to rev-match downshifts when controlling it manually, I could do it much smoother.