driving lessons

dafloppyone · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:39

would you say this is a good deal

20 1hr lessons and

6 hr pass plus lessons for

£450

loltim · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:41

Sounds expensive to me.

shauncr91 · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:42

How much is pass plus on its own? I just had my first driving lesson today and paid £14 for one hour...

dafloppyone · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:42

pass plus is £150

Craig321 · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:42

Sounds about right, it's usually about £20 for a single hour lesson isn't it?

[Edit]
You're paying £14 a single lesson - 14x20=280
Pass plus - 150 - 280+150=430

Jotun · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:44

I paid £16/hour when I was learning a few years ago but was told the prices were going up by my instructor around the time I passed. You'd be paying just over £17 an hour for 26 hours in total, which seems reasonable to me. Have you had a lesson with the instructor before though? You don't want to pay all that money and then find out they are rubbish!

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 17 Apr 2008 at 19:52

Nullvoid · 17 Apr 2008 at 20:06

Well 20 lessons here would cost in the region of £400-475 so that seems like good value to me.

JIM_BOB7813 · 17 Apr 2008 at 20:19

I used to pay £45 (i think) for a 2-hour lesson, so that looks cheap to me.

Soviet · 17 Apr 2008 at 20:29

Never pay in bulk. As said the instructor may be a **** or rubbish. You probably won't need all those lessons anyway.

MR_Punk · 17 Apr 2008 at 20:36

Id have needed 2 lots of them to pass. I sucked when I was learning

lumpeh · 17 Apr 2008 at 20:40

I pay £23 an hour for mine, but then i consider this worth it as i get on with the instructor and its a nice 6 speed diesel mini that makes hill starts too easy.

iBot · 17 Apr 2008 at 20:44

driving is easy, just play gran tuirsmo and drive around a car park in your friends car for 20 minutes

Kanifee · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:05

As said, find the rite instructor first before deciding to stick, a good instructor can make the differance between 10 and 30 lessons.
If he is **** you wont learn anything, i got 3 hour lessons, yes that seems long but to me anything under 2 hours just didnt seem enough. I had my provisional lesson with him and i new he would be good, several first time passes that i know of personally and the way he tought was the clincher for me. 3 3-hour lessons i had and passed first time less than 2 weeks ago.
I could quite hounestly believe any other instructor and i would have needed a few more one hour lessons and or not passed first time.

Dist · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:10

When i tried to learn to drive when i was 18, my awfull instructor put me off it, and i ended up not bothering to do any more lessons or even trying the test. Its a good thing i dont realy need a car while im studying for my degree, because its a pain trying to learn from an instructor whos bit of an ass.

Next time i attempt to learn to drive, nearing the end of my degree, i think ill try a more professional driving school, instead of going for just some local person found in a paper.

So my advice is like whats been said already, dont pay in bulk as your driving instructor may be an ass, and could put you off learning to drive.

manoz · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:12

iBot said:
driving is easy, just play gran tuirsmo and drive around a car park in your friends car for 20 minutes

Which fantasy world you driving around in?

Mine cost 20 quid an hour, only ever have 2 hour lessons though. AA in Bristol were charging £24 an hour a few years ago! I'm using BSM

Freeman · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:13

Dist said:
Next time i attempt to learn to drive, nearing the end of my degree, i think ill try a more professional driving school, instead of going for just some local person found in a paper.

That's exactly what I thought when I learnt to drive. I didn't want any old local geeza teaching me so I used the official AA school. It was dearer than most lessons at £23 an hour but it was well worth it. Learnt in a brand new Focus (got replaced every 6 months) and the instructor was very professional.

Shotgun_ned · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:14

I was paying £22 per hour when I was learning, and I passed after 12 hours so that could be a few too many for you. My instructor was excellent though, he was a very good teacher. I passed first time with 2 minors.

Burnsy2023 · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:14

manoz said:
Which fantasy world you driving around in?

Mine cost 20 quid an hour, only ever have 2 hour lessons though. AA in Bristol were charging £24 an hour a few years ago!

No he's right, you could probably 'drive' as in move the car. Being able to pass the test and driving on the road is a totally different ball game though.

Burnsy

Dist · 17 Apr 2008 at 21:18

Freeman said:
That's exactly what I thought when I learnt to drive. I didn't want any old local geeza teaching me so I used the official AA school. It was dearer than most lessons at £23 an hour but it was well worth it. Learnt in a brand new Focus (got replaced every 6 months) and the instructor was very professional.

Sounds good, i may have to look ingo the AA school when i try learn again. The instructor i had used quite an old car, with a realy annoying gears (or it could have just been me not being able to shift correctly, im not sure, but it took a bit of force to shift). Worse bit was half way through the test the instructor noticed one of his friends doing a driving lesson for someone else in a nearby car, so he rolled down the window and started shouting across to the other car, while were waiting at traffic lights :mad:

The other thing was it was like he expected me to know everything already, yet this was my first time behind the wheel, i didnt know stuff like when to start breaking when coming up to a junction, or how hard to break, how to properly change gears etc. I would have thought a teacher would teach me all this as i go, not just tell me which turnings to take and expect me to know how to drive with just directions and no instructions.