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gaelic cowboy
08-31-2011, 13:34
:2thumbsup:

At last I got this monkey off me back, I have been stuck on a provisional for a while now :balloon2::balloon2::balloon2::balloon2:



watch out I can drive in all EU/EEA member states
Subotan
08-31-2011, 13:43
Congratz! How long have you been trying to pass?
gaelic cowboy
08-31-2011, 13:51
Ages and ages, I got the prov years ago and never did the test cos I left home and didnt need the car.

Then I came back and applied the year before last and I had three fails since, they say leaving it so long you get bad habits that are hard to break for your test.

This time I did two to three lessons a week for about a month beforehand.

I nearly died when the tester came out he is know as the strictest guy in the centre, he just about let me go. (he was itching for another bad mark)

At least it's done now and never needs doing again.
Rhyfelwyr
08-31-2011, 14:20
I passed mine when I was 17 and haven't driven since, the insurance was too expensive.

I hope its like riding a bike and I will pick it up again, its been 4 years now...
Peasant Phill
08-31-2011, 14:25
Gaelic cowboy, please put up a thread with your planned travel routes and the times you'll use those.
We'll all feel a lot safer.
gaelic cowboy
08-31-2011, 14:58
Gaelic cowboy, please put up a thread with your planned travel routes and the times you'll use those.
We'll all feel a lot safer.

no probs I will PM you so with he dates.
Hamata
08-31-2011, 18:14
Nice congrats. how many times did you fail was it over 9000?! lol well I'm 16 so I'm excited for this test as well too bad I have to pay like 500 bucks be for hand because I did something in my childhood :s and it's somthing i'm not proud of
Fisherking
08-31-2011, 19:22
If you can drive the boreens safely you shouldn’t have any problem any place else, except just remember that once you are on the continent everyone drives on the other side of the road. :laugh4:


Congrats! :2thumbsup:
gaelic cowboy
09-01-2011, 01:12
If you can drive the boreens safely you shouldn’t have any problem any place else, except just remember that once you are on the continent everyone drives on the other side of the road. :laugh4:


Congrats! :2thumbsup:

You have never driven till you have had to drive on roads where the hedge is scratching both sides of the car. :yes:
A Nerd
09-01-2011, 12:31
Congrats on passing your test. I have a question about the roads over there. In police chase TV shows I have watched (don't get into one), there are white zig zag lines on the street. What the heck do those mean? We have no such lines here in the US and I have always wondered as to what they signify. I think the chases were in England but perhaps they span (the zig zags) the whole of the UK?
gaelic cowboy
09-01-2011, 13:13
Congrats on passing your test. I have a question about the roads over there. In police chase TV shows I have watched (don't get into one), there are white zig zag lines on the street. What the heck do those mean? We have no such lines here in the US and I have always wondered as to what they signify. I think the chases were in England but perhaps they span (the zig zags) the whole of the UK?

Yea there generally from the UK but sometimes if you watch enough of them there is the odd Irish one, usually it just some eejits like boy racers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_racer) up in Donegal or a joyrider over in Dublin.

Anyway to your question I'm guessing its at a pedestrian crossing like this one

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Here is a webpage with how to do any of them (http://www.2pass.co.uk/crossing.htm)

Basically don't overtake or park up as it blocks the persons view of the road if there using the pedestrian crossing in the background.

Oh and don't forget to stop if the pedestrian has even a half a foot on the crossing.
Ja'chyra
09-02-2011, 20:46
Well done, I've got mine in 2 weeks after failing my first and last one 19 years ago.
gaelic cowboy
09-02-2011, 23:42
Well done, I've got mine in 2 weeks after failing my first and last one 19 years ago.

Good luck
Fisherking
09-04-2011, 10:20
You have never driven till you have had to drive on roads where the hedge is scratching both sides of the car. :yes:

It was never the hedges that bothered me on boreens.

It was meeting a dump truck in a curve doing 100kmh and knowing there were camouflaged tank traps on both sides of the road, that you people call ditches. :bow:
Ja'chyra
10-07-2011, 18:03
Oh, meant to say, passed with 1 minor, stay out of Wales for a while.

Only took 19 years and getting on for £500, bargain. No driving tonight though, busy drinking.
ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
10-07-2011, 18:44
STAY OFF THE ROADS :laugh:!

Congrats dude!
PanzerJaeger
10-07-2011, 22:01
Congrats!

Driving tests over there must be much more difficult than they are here in the States. It's very hard to fail one over here, which is too bad. Mine consisted of putting the (automatic) car in drive and reverse and making it around a block without crashing. No interstate, no passing maneuvers, no emergency scenarios, and no parallel parking. Passed!
Subotan
10-07-2011, 22:45
The British tests are renowned as being some of the hardest in the world - this contrasts with, say, the Turkish driving test which consists of a hill start.
Hosakawa Tito
10-08-2011, 12:22
Congrats gc. Avoid any road trips near "Women Only" car-parks.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/carpark.jpg
gaelic cowboy
10-12-2011, 15:10
The British tests are renowned as being some of the hardest in the world - this contrasts with, say, the Turkish driving test which consists of a hill start.

I used work with this guy in INTEL and he reckon that Saudi Arabia had a test which consisted of reversing into a parking space at the test centre, apparently he lived there for a while fixing helicopters or summit.

It seems they assumed you were capable of driving forwards cos you obviously drove to the test centre :laugh4: he also claimed it was not accepted anywhere in the world, even if it was a lie it's still a great story in the pub :laugh4: