Advanced Driving Test

[CurtSD]

My birthday was today (yay for me :P) and my step dad is a examiner for the driving instructors, so he tests the people that test everyone else. Anyway, as a birthday present he paid for my advanced driving course, which is both good and bad as I was hoping he would pay for my CBT instead but never mind.

So I put it to all the non boyracers of Sax-P. Has anyone else taken this? Anyone thought about it? The good and bad points?

Discuss basically... :p

[Jaytee]

Thought about it but decided against it tbh.

[MarkEB]

I never bothered when i first past my test.. my mate did and only made it slightly cheeper for the first year.. that was 8 years ago tho, so....

[CharlotteBD]

i wanna do mine

[bez_123]

I did it was quite helpful and i got to do the skidpan really cheap which i also wanted to do! Its quite easy i did it straight after i passed and was one of the youngest to do it in warrington! :)

[marcusd]

thought about it but was told they so picky down to both hands on wheel at all times. i would fail. wanna do the skid pan tho

[MarkEB]

When my instructor asked me about it he said just give him the money and he would give me the certificate... DODGY

[Marky_C]

I did. Piece of piss not sure if its changed insurance too much as I never checked before i did it. It has made me more confident and I feel a better driver.

[CurtSD]

When my instructor asked me about it he said just give him the money and he would give me the certificate... DODGY

Fairly sure thats pass plus. Too many different people to go through for that to be true.

Well I start mine in November, looking forward to the skid pan now :)

[Lozza_vtr]

Yeah peps, don't get this confussed with pass plus.

[Yukimura]

- apologies for bumping an old thread but I'm also pretty curious about this.

I've been checking out all the info here -- http://www.iam.org.uk/
I'm too lazy to call and ask my current insurer. Does anyone know if it really makes a worthwhile impact on your insurance premium???

[MrHouston]

Most insurers is 10% which is about the same price as the test... waste of time and money

[tokyodrifte]

i did it was quite helpful and i got to do the skidpan really cheap which i also wanted to do! Its quite easy i did it straight after i passed and was one of the youngest to do it in warrington! :)

waaarrrrrrrington waaaarrington!

[Yukimura]

So I guess you could save over the long-term.

So I guess the main benefit would be the right to undisputably state that you're a more accomplished driver than [insert girlfriends name here].

Awesome... but still probably not worth the £160 odd.

[PSPDan]

I know for a while round here if you did it you could claim half the cost back. Making it £80ish. Not sure if they do it in other places though.

Edit:

Was thinking of Pass Plus.

[Jordysport]

did passplus but never bothered really with any ADI stuff as i was trained by an top ADI Police officer.

Sounds good if most people did this.

[Jay_]

i think anything that can improve you as a driver is a good thing tbh....Going through mine at the moment - the old man is teaching me all the police driving stuff, so should be a breeze, just need to put in for a test....

[Gary-VTR]

The normal driving test was stressful enough. No way I'd pay even more to put myself through extra unnecessary stress. :|

[stuart-h]

- apologies for bumping an old thread but I'm also pretty curious about this.

I've been checking out all the info here -- http://www.iam.org.uk/
I'm too lazy to call and ask my current insurer. Does anyone know if it really makes a worthwhile impact on your insurance premium???

Mine went up!! :(

[rich112]

Was very straight forward, didn't have to do a great deal. My insurance was no different.