AA school of motoring BEWARE & HELP!!

jeannieblue

anewman wrote: »

= excuse to get over £20 per hour for no effort whatsoever. :money:

Are you saying, that if it is raining you can't do things like a turn in the road, reversing or parking?

If that is so, and I had been taught this way, then I would be well stuffed considering the weather we are expecting in the South East over next few days. I probably wouldn't have been taught how to open the door due to snow...... (a southerly sprinkling) ..... and Goldenspangles up in the cold cold northern common provence of Glasgow, wouldn't have been taught how to get out of bed! Ah............. but he wouldn't know how to do that on a sunny summers day come to think of it...

goldspanners

jeannieblue wrote: »

Are you saying, that if it is raining you can't do things like a turn in the road, reversing or parking?

If that is so, and I had been taught this way, then I would be well stuffed considering the weather we are expecting in the South East over next few days. I probably wouldn't have been taught how to open the door due to snow...... (a southerly sprinkling) ..... and Goldenspangles up in the cold cold northern common provence of Glasgow, wouldn't have been taught how to get out of bed! Ah............. but he wouldn't know how to do that on a sunny summers day come to think of it...

yes thats right jeanie, the snow gates have been closed all winter just incase of some bad weather.

RichyRich

Crabman wrote: »

BSM have trainees but the AA "pride themselves" on having fully qualified instructors:

http://www.theaa.com/driving-school/learn-to-drive/driving-instructor.html

Do they still insist on 2 hour lessons?

P.S: If we're mentioning AA for google, may want to throw Centrica into the mix. That's right, Centrica. Centrica is the parent company of the AA.

Centrica, for all their faults, are no longer the parent company of the AA. Centrica, whose legal personality is Centrica plc, sold the Automobile Association (also known as the AA) to two private equity firms in 2004. The AA is now owned jointly by CVC and Permira, under a joint venture known as CVC Capital Partners.

According to Wikipedia, this makes the dodgy shenanigans observed by our friends at the AA indelibly linked with other household names such as Debenhams, Samsonite, Formula 1 Racing (CVC), Bird's Eye, Gala, Coral, and Yellow Pages (Permira).

In my experience, efforts by Debenhams to shirk their responsibilities under the Sale of Goods Act have been equally appalling as those of the AA.


Google: stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
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jeannieblue

goldspanners wrote: »

yes thats right jeanie, the snow gates have been closed all winter just incase of some bad weather.

We are expecting snow - imminently now - had a sprinkling earlier. Just hope my focus gets me up and down the hills (yes, I know what county I live in) but there are hills that I have to negotiate to get to work in this weather and everyone gets all neurotic..... panics.......... and it all comes to a standstill. Rather sad...

Chains would help - but they are illegal....

Goldie - you are experienced - I'd like advice, but no doubt you will sit with your feet up, watching the news, and enjoying the chaos that us Southerners are in...

LandyAndy

stoneman wrote: »

My daughter also had a bad experience with the AA. I paid about £540 up front for lessons, when she started the instructor told her that the average amount of lessons needed to pass was 40!!! He left the AA after about a month, she was allocated another instructor who spent the first lesson asking her to drive around so that he could asses her driving, so this was her paying £22 for him to asses her. He left after a couple of months and was allocated another instructor, same thing, another £22 lesson to asses her driving. This happened a further 2 times until she just gave up after the money ran out. So in a few months she had 4 different instructors. I took this up with the AA but they said they had no influence on weather the instructors stayed or went and it was reasonable for an instructor of the AA to spend a lesson to asses her driving. So I spent over £80 in assessment lessons. They are rubbish and thought I was doing the right thing by getting her the best driving school I could find.

Sorry, couldn't resist it.:D

goldspanners

jeannieblue wrote: »

Chains would help - but they are illegal....

Goldie - you are experienced - I'd like advice, but no doubt you will sit with your feet up, watching the news, and enjoying the chaos that us Southerners are in...

even scotland comes to a standstill with the slightest bit of snow or ice. the funny thing is that the councils usually act to late to grit the roads and then the gritters get stuck in the traffic caused by someone skidding off the motorway.
we will never get used to this weather.

MrsE_2

jeannieblue wrote: »

We are expecting snow - imminently now - had a sprinkling earlier. Just hope my focus gets me up and down the hills (yes, I know what county I live in) but there are hills that I have to negotiate to get to work in this weather and everyone gets all neurotic..... panics.......... and it all comes to a standstill. Rather sad...

Chains would help - but they are illegal....

Goldie - you are experienced - I'd like advice, but no doubt you will sit with your feet up, watching the news, and enjoying the chaos that us Southerners are in...

I didn't know chains were illegal, I've seen them in use in France in the snow.

Its like a xmas card here tonight, I'm dreading the drive to work tomorrow:eek:

goldspanners

MrsE wrote: »

I didn't know chains were illegal, I've seen them in use in France in the snow.

Its like a xmas card here tonight, I'm dreading the drive to work tomorrow:eek:

nothing much here at the moment, i dont think we are expecting much snow here,just cold and damp as usual.

vikingaero

The best way to find an instructor is definitely word of mouth. Ask all the 17+ year old kids for advice. We have an instructor around our way who runs her own business - Jackies School of Motoring. She's rated by all the yoof in the area mainly because of her attitude. Sometimes she picks them up for their lesson, realises they've been on the town all night, tells them they're not up to it, drives them home, rebooks the lesson and doesn't charge them for it. She must engender so much goodwill.

GaryS

Looks like the OP has had a particulary bad experience with the AA Driving School.
My daughter's AA driving instructor is very good, DD is doing very well.
BUT, we made sure that she had a couple of lessons before we committed to a block booking.
This way she could see if she was happy with the instructor.