New idea for getting a driving licence

mejinks

mejinks

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As part of the new driving test, I vote that the examiner should get the pupil to drive to the nearest hellfrauds etc and ask the pupil to pick out something for their new car. Anything other than regular service item or air freshner should be instant fail.

Also, I think driving licences shouldn't be given to immature idiots with cash. Take my complete **** for a younger brother. Passed his test 2 months ago, already on his third car! His current car has a 1.2 engine yet the berk still manages to smash the rear stub axle and set the airbags off with less than 100 miles on the clock while doing what I suspect were handbrake turns. Don't get me wrong, but there are car enthusiasts and there's numpties commonly refered to as charvers and these are the problem.

I don't know what its like these days, but I didn't get my driving licence by saving up the tokens from the back of weetos packets. All newly qualified drivers should take a retest, randomly imposed on them after a year of driving to make sure they are capable of driving as from my experience of the backwards cap wearing neon abusing, loutish ugly retarded scum of society, they aren't fit to own model cars.
 
..thats incredibly harsh.

Just because you modify a car it doesn't mean you can't drive. A mate of mine has a modified Clio, Lexus lights the lot. He treats it with utter respect.
 
should scrap the current test as its nonsense.

test is to drive around a forest at night with no lights.

then soem extreme track driving... its the only way you can truly handle and learn to adapt to the control of the car.

all the carp in the test now is just a nice way to get to the supermarkets with your granny
 
lucasade1 said:
Yes, all 17 year olds are baseball cap wearing scum of the earth.
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Yes, I said that didn't I :rolleyes:



-westy- said:
..thats incredibly harsh.

Just because you modify a car it doesn't mean you can't drive. A mate of mine has a modified Clio, Lexus lights the lot. He treats it with utter respect.
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There is modifying and there's murdering a car. You know the distinction, its called taste and decency.
 
Why are YOU worrying where people are spending their money? Just because you don't think Halfords is a suitable shop for car stuff doesn't mean everyone should stop shopping there. You need to stop worrying about other people, get your own life, and worry about that!
 
Now now, as lucasade said, don’t tar us all with the same brush.

I myself am on my 3rd car after driving a year and atm my 3rd car is a heavily modified one.

There are lots of kids about that modify their cars and treat them like gold dust because they work hard and have the car to show what they worked for. Then again you have some kids who mummy and daddy buy them and give them xxx amounts of money for alloys and stuff for them to wreck them, you will get those types of kids everywhere.

All im trying to say is don’t brand us all with this stamp as there are some young drivers with modified cars who actually look after their motors.

-Dave
 
lucasade1 said:
You proposed a re-test after a year which is surely tarring us all with the same brush.
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which I think is quite out of order. I'm 17, been driving almost a year now, 1st and only car so far..! and hopefully for a while too. anyone who ever gets in my car says I'm calm, confident, and evidently aware of the goings on, and this is coming from people in work who have been driving 10+ years.

we're not all the baseball cap wearing chavs running around making the roads hectic! consider this before you make such statements!!

heck if I wore a cap I'd get pulled straight away in my car anyways!! :D :p

ScoobyDoo69
 
Random tests would be better placed with the older drivers in my opinion. Also the driving test has got harder from what it used to be in the old days, so in theory new drivers should be more experienced when they first hit the road - (told by driving instructor)
 
I've never understood this universal hatred of Halfords. Mostly they sell genuine car parts, lubricants, tools, radios, bikes and stuff. Their garages do genuine repairs, servicing etc. They usually have just one shelf for aftermarket tat.

Most of Halfords competitors sell far more 'max power' chav type things.
 
sp33d12 said:
I myself am on my 3rd car after driving a year and atm my 3rd car is a heavily modified one.

All im trying to say is don’t brand us all with this stamp as there are some young drivers with modified cars who actually look after their motors.
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I agree with this. There are two types of people... chavs and car enthusiasts. Sadly, the chavs give the enthusiasts a bad name.

I can see from your sig that you have a nice car which you take pride it. It has subtle mods which IMO suit the car. There's nothing wrong with putting a nice pair of wheels of bumper splitters/sideskirts on a car, as long as they actually suit it.

In regards to the OP, mejinks, your little brother isn't called Darren by any chance is he?

A mate of mine from school recently started driving. He's on his 3rd car already, which is a 1.2 Clio. He wrote both of his other cars off by slamming them into trolley bays in supermarket car parks.

Now, I'm happy to admit that I drive over the speed limit if it's safe to do so. What I don't like is people like my mate giving me and other sensible young drivers a bad name. I had a ride in my mates car the other week and I ended up clinging onto the seat praying for my life. The way he drove was scary!

He did things I wouldn't even dream of doing on the roads. I just value my life, my car and my NCB too much!

It's not suprising everyone thinks young people are bad drivers. That's probably why I get people staring at me while I drive past them (at the speed limit!!) as though I killed their daughter.
 
lemonkettaz said:
should scrap the current test as its nonsense.

test is to drive around a forest at night with no lights.

then soem extreme track driving... its the only way you can truly handle and learn to adapt to the control of the car.

all the carp in the test now is just a nice way to get to the supermarkets with your granny
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or very least they should add in some of the above. i agree, the way your told to drive is the very basics, learning how to control speeding etc or people speeding is a different situtation entirely. the hazard perception part of the theory is the BIGGEST joke ever, i dont believe for 1 second that drivers sit and wait for a guy to jump out from behind a white van to go "AH CAUGHT YOU OUT!" and you then have to swerve. I also believe the older generation (no offense) are probably worse in some aspects.. but the younger generation (i.e. my generation) are just as bad if not worse, as they are speeding unlike most of the older lot (they just lose sense of how to go round a roundabout properly etc)
 
Personally I see no difference between some kid that spends all his cash on Lexus lights and some middle aged bloke that spends all his cash on a Range Rover, in my opinion it's money that could be spent much better either way. :)
 
Right, for the people who read what they want to read, I said newly qualified drivers. Im assuming you can read before getting your head up your own ****

Anyway, my point is a valid one as it not only applies to the idiots but also to nervous drivers and people who pass their test then drive like they have never had a lesson.

And to Quantic, I don't have a problem with Halfords, but it is a well known example to keep it simple for the cross section of posters that have an IQ of less than a baked potato. I also have a life thanks for asking.

Yes, Morba, it may well be Newport has a greater cross section of GLC lovin backwards cap wearing Chavelier driving numpties....

Actually Mr Jamez it had just come out of a testing station....

To Mr AGW_1, cheers. I used to be into modifying cars in a big way (even made a business out of it) but as I pointed out in another reply, there are tasteful mods like alloy wheels, clear indicators, tinted windows. However and this is where my point lies, there are bad mods like undercar neons, neon washer jets, poundland bins for exhausts and 16 valve stickers on car that struggle to have 8.

Im NOT branding all 17 year olds, I still can't see how that came across in my original post, but hey im not 17 or quick to jump on a post that touches a nerve.
 
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