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    Angry I need to learn to drive a car

    I can drive a car up around an empty piece of land and I can change gears etc but I just wouldnt be comfortable on the road. I am gonna get my L sometime in the next few weeks. Once I have, what is the best way to learn to drive confidently on the road, not using an expensive driving tutor person?

    I kind of like my partner so I am trying my best to not ask him to teach me so that we can keep the relationship intact!
    Any advice would be helpful....
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    Christ how hard could it be??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket View Post
    I can drive a car up around an empty piece of land and I can change gears etc but I just wouldnt be comfortable on the road. I am gonna get my L sometime in the next few weeks. Once I have, what is the best way to learn to drive confidently on the road, not using an expensive driving tutor person?

    I kind of like my partner so I am trying my best to not ask him to teach me so that we can keep the relationship intact!
    Any advice would be helpful....
    Go and get yourself a couple of lessons from the fancy pants instructor mate. You will learn good habits. After that all you have to do to learn how to drive is to actually drive, it is practise that teaches.

    I am sure that lovely man of yours will be happy to supervise you while you practise your skills and this way no stress on the relationship while he yells at you and you yell at him, for yelling at you.
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    Nonono,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthrax View Post
    Christ how hard could it be??
    I am a female and that was not the question!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket View Post
    I can drive a car up around an empty piece of land and I can change gears etc but I just wouldnt be comfortable on the road. I am gonna get my L sometime in the next few weeks. Once I have, what is the best way to learn to drive confidently on the road, not using an expensive driving tutor person?

    I kind of like my partner so I am trying my best to not ask him to teach me so that we can keep the relationship intact!
    Any advice would be helpful....

    Chook might be able to help you there
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nasty View Post
    Chook might be able to help you there
    Hey, now there's a plan!
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    What Mom said!!!! The only way to learn after lessons, is to do it, everyday a situation will arise that's different, and you will have to deal with it.

    I can remember, kicking my then partner out of my datsun 180b? Bunny hopping down the road, furious!!!

    He had to walk home I was a teenager though...

    Parallel parking my old XY ute was a palm sweating inducing incident, but once I completed that once, I never had a prob again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket View Post
    Hey, now there's a plan!
    You might want to use your own vehicle .. or even mine ... cos hers is a tank!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nasty View Post
    You might want to use your own vehicle .. or even mine ... cos hers is a tank!!
    Yeah, finer details can be sorted. I really dont want to get my car licence but there are times when you just really need it, damnit! I guess I am trying to tell myself that it cannot be that hard to do in the grand scheme of things!

    I really cant afford to pay anyone for lesson's. Getting the bloody licence to start with is in excess of $100. Putting things in perspective, that's the entry fee for one day's racing at Manfeild!
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    Start with country roads with no traffic and gradually work into busier roads as you feel confident to do so. Take your Mum, NOT your Dad.
    "Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death" - Hunter S. Thompson

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    Quote Originally Posted by NDORFN View Post
    Start with country roads with no traffic and gradually work into busier roads as you feel confident to do so. Take your Mum, NOT your Dad.
    Well that would mean that I would have to travel all the way to Rotorua from Wellington just to learn to drive a car. Bit extreme me thinks!
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    Geeze chick I'll let ya drive the Honda tank! You won't even have to concentrate on gears while you are getting to grips with just being in the traffic in a car.

    On that note I find it increasingly harder not to consider lane splitting in it

    Anyway we can hook up and you can chauffuer me somewhere perhaps?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Number One View Post
    Geeze chick I'll let ya drive the Honda tank! You won't even have to concentrate on gears while you are getting to grips with just being in the traffic in a car.

    On that note I find it increasingly harder not to consider lane splitting in it

    Anyway we can hook up and you can chauffuer me somewhere perhaps?
    Sounds good, once I get the learners licence. As I am over 25yrs of age, (though not by much) I could easily sort insurance for when I drive too, if you're worried at all...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket View Post
    Well that would mean that I would have to travel all the way to Rotorua from Wellington just to learn to drive a car. Bit extreme me thinks!
    No you wouldn't.
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    I know it seems expensive, but using a profressional instructor a couple of time really is the bext way to go. They'll teach you the "right" way of doing things for the test that you'll need to be doing.

    Otherwise you'll probably go to do the practical test, and fail it, several times, and then come to the realisation that the instructor would have been cheaper in the first place.

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