IAM driving course

miniyazz · 5 Jun 2012 at 14:47

Worth it for the ?insurance £££savings?

Worth it generally?

(Saw a booth the other day in town)

poker_999 · 5 Jun 2012 at 14:57

miniyazz · 5 Jun 2012 at 15:14

Cool

ubersonic · 5 Jun 2012 at 16:32

miniyazz said:
Worth it for the ?insurance £££savings?

No, Pass plus is though (especially considering the Police/Fire service offer it for free in some areas)

miniyazz said:
Worth it generally?

(Saw a booth the other day in town)

Yes as it will teach you how to drive a car whereas driving lessons just teach you to operate a car and pass a test.

miniyazz · 5 Jun 2012 at 16:41

ubersonic said:
No, Pass plus is though (especially considering the Police/Fire service offer it for free in some areas)

Yes as it will teach you how to drive a car whereas driving lessons just teach you to operate a car and pass a test.

I thought Pass Plus was only useful for about a year after qualifying? And was more geared towards giving you experience of motorways etc. That's long behind me now so likely of minimal point?

Ahh, so it's actually a genuinely useful thing to do then?

Janesy B · 5 Jun 2012 at 16:51

Insurers stopped caring about pass plus a year after I passed my test.

CrimsonAvenger · 5 Jun 2012 at 17:00

1st one - probably not long term.

2nd one - definately.

People in this household have done it. 1 Adult, 1 teen + 1 22 year old and everyones driving has benefitted

Frozennova · 5 Jun 2012 at 20:55

Pass plus is a waste of money IMO, I'd already driven in rain,fog,night and snow on lessons. The only thing I hadn't is motorway which isnt exactly rocket science and it didn't save me a bean on insurance.

poker_999 · 5 Jun 2012 at 21:02

CrimsonAvenger said:
1st one - probably not long term.

2nd one - definately.

People in this household have done it. 1 Adult, 1 teen + 1 22 year old and everyones driving has benefitted

so thats 2 adults then?

shifty_uk · 5 Jun 2012 at 21:08

ManLoveRulesOK said:
Pass plus is a waste of money IMO, I'd already driven in rain,fog,night and snow on lessons. The only thing I hadn't is motorway which isnt exactly rocket science and it didn't save me a bean on insurance.

Pretty much all of this.

One · 5 Jun 2012 at 21:13

IAM is a good thing to do, it will give you a saving, but more importantly it will give you instructed teaching from highly skilled policemen about how you will be able to avoid accidents, from learning road positioning, how to anticipate drivers i.e. know every idiotic thing they can do at any moment and driving so if they do those things you can take action. Avoiding accidents will save you a ton of money on insurance

miniyazz · 5 Jun 2012 at 22:06

desires said:
IAM is a good thing to do, it will give you a saving, but more importantly it will give you instructed teaching from highly skilled policemen about how you will be able to avoid accidents, from learning road positioning, how to anticipate drivers i.e. know every idiotic thing they can do at any moment and driving so if they do those things you can take action. Avoiding accidents will save you a ton of money on insurance

Well put

poker_999 · 5 Jun 2012 at 23:10

IAM is a bad thing to do, it might give you a marginal reduction in your insurance premiums but its doubtful that over a lifetime it will actually save you money. It will probably however give you a superior feeling over other road users and might even make you take more risks because you believe you are a higher qualified driver than everyone else who collected 5 crisp packets and sent off for their licenses.

Janesy B · 5 Jun 2012 at 23:15

Going by that theory learner drivers are the best because they don't have licenses and won't think they are good drivers?

miniyazz · 5 Jun 2012 at 23:54

poker_999 said:
IAM is a bad thing to do, it might give you a marginal reduction in your insurance premiums but its doubtful that over a lifetime it will actually save you money. It will probably however give you a superior feeling over other road users and might even make you take more risks because you believe you are a higher qualified driver than everyone else who collected 5 crisp packets and sent off for their licenses.

Your reasoning does sound a little, er... special

Jonnycoupe · 6 Jun 2012 at 00:35

poker_999 said:
IAM is a bad thing to do, it might give you a marginal reduction in your insurance premiums but its doubtful that over a lifetime it will actually save you money. It will probably however give you a superior feeling over other road users and might even make you take more risks because you believe you are a higher qualified driver than everyone else who collected 5 crisp packets and sent off for their licenses.

Joe Bloggs drivers often don't even recognise risks than an IAM training driver would.

The training I did helped me assess roads in more detail and read way further up the road but opened my eyes to overtaking opportunities, it can be remarkably easy to make progress with good road positioning and non committal to overtakes... It's the run up overtakers who are the risk takers as they often end up with no where to go. IAM should train that out of you.

JaWalks · 6 Jun 2012 at 01:27

IAM teaches common sense. If you already have this there is no point doing a course.

LeMson · 6 Jun 2012 at 10:37

PH advanced section seems to be people just overtaking others. I'm not sure if they are speeding or how they manage to find all these other people driving below the speed limit?

Janesy B · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:12

I find them all the time.

Jonnycoupe · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:20

LeMson said:
PH advanced section seems to be people just overtaking others. I'm not sure if they are speeding or how they manage to find all these other people driving below the speed limit?

Everywhere, people like to use their brake pedal as much as their throttle. Getting verage speed near the speed limit is how you make progress.

I had the pleasure of overtaking an SLK55 AMG in my Insight as I came up to him doing 40mph down a good B road, on the straight he then accelerated to a whopping 50mph. :rolleyes: