Duck_Pond

Look on the bright side - at least you'll have a valid / plausible excuse for failing, instead of just admitting you're a cr@p driver, and can't parallel park to save your life.

scoobydoo wrx

lol, unlucky mate- just ask for your money back if u fail

JayPSC

Same thing happened to me, my instructor passed me to a colleague a week b4 my test, wasn't happy & it didn't go well.

Brand new car should be ok as long as ya have a couple of hours practice, I had to go in a old 106 with a shagged clutch

ajm

Better a new car than an old one! I did my test in an old Nissan micra with 136,000 miles on the clock. It needed new points so bad it would stall if you didn't catch the revs every time you took your foot off the accelerator! Fortunately I only stalled it once in the car park and the examiner was good enough to realise it wasn't anything to do with poor clutch control!

Like others said, get as much practise as you can in the new car, it wont take long to get used to it.

NACRO

A different car shouldn't make any difference at all. I take it you aren't going to bother with the bribe? Good choice.

NotoriousREV

The lesson before my test, the clutch started to slip on my instructors Metro so come the test day, it had a nice new clutch. Took a bit of getting used to as I'd only ever driven the one car, but I still passed.

pugoetru

chaos just take a test in an auto one less thing to worry about just click it into drive and go

Sub97

If you can drive it shouldnt make a difference. Do you own the exact same car he had previsouly and you're going to drrve that for the rest of your life?

red_dog104

Don't worry. I learned in a Metro and on the day of my test, my instructor turned up in an Escort cause his car had broken down! Had an hour driving then my test. Passed, no problem!!

Good luck

beemerboy

LOL

You'll be fine mate.

PS are you and Poorguy in some sort of competition??

BB

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Get on with it, I took mine in an MOT borderline Trimuph Acclaim, no PAS, didnt run right and was old even back in 1988.

ScoobyDoo555

Please take this as encouragement (this is the way it's intended), BUT.......

It shouldn't matter what car you're taking yor test in - they all operate the same way!
If you feel in way uncomfortable about taking a test in a different car, then I suggest that you're not ready to take the test anyway.... (in a nice way, honest!) and DON'T take it.

I'm invovled in Education, and the last thing I would do to "set my student up to fail" - totaly pointless.

If you are concerned, have a chat with your driving instructor

If it's a bigger car, take comfort from the great Jedi Master, Yoda "Size matters not" Just think "bigger"

Either way, I wish you the best of luck!!

Dan

Poor Guy

watch it PG!


my jammy ******* mate just passed today and said "I only clicked on warning signs (school, crossing etc) and got 64 marks"

PG

chaos.

Just found out today that 2 days before my 4th driving test, my instructor is getting a brand new car that I am not farmiliar with .. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] Some people were born unlucky werent they ..

[Edited by chaos. - 9/11/2003 11:41:21 PM]

PG

Could be worse. You could be like "Poor Guy" and just be **** at the hazard perception test and never get to sit the test in any car



Where is he

[Edited by PG - 9/12/2003 9:57:17 AM]