I wanna: Learn To Drive For FREE

welshliz

Anyone know any companies that give you discounts or free lessons?? It would be greatly appreciated.

Sallys_Savings

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If you have any tesco vouchers they are doing a Brilliant deal with BSM...take a look at the tesco website for more info.
Hope this is of help.

quoia

I wanna: Learn To Drive For FREE


then get a friend or family member to teach you.

I've never had a driving lesson from an "instructor" other than my mum.
Passed on my 2nd attempt - failed 1st time for "being TOO CAREFUL"

jammiev

welshliz wrote:

Anyone know any companies that give you discounts or free lessons?? It would be greatly appreciated.

join the army or TA and do it!

smartsaver

cotsvale wrote:

I tried the BSM lessons through Tesco vouchers for my daughter and was very disappointed. He would pick her up then drive her to the other side of Cheltenham (20 minutes) she'd drive around a bit in 1st gear and then he'd drive her back another 20 minutes. In the 6th & final hour of the voucher lessons he finally let her go into 2nd gear!!!!!!There are many driving schools which use my village and I could not understand why he had to drive her miles away. She is a bright and capable girl (8A*& 2A grades at GCSE) and we found the whole thing frustrating. It could be that it was just this particular instructor or I wonder if BSM drag these voucher lessons out so that they don't lose out on too many lessons when you are paying them directly????I wanted to complain but didn't know where I stood because it was a voucher deal. Needless to say really - we changed driving schools.

Sounds more like the instructor than BSM. At least with BSM you do not have to pick up and drive home other learner drivers for the next lesson

Jamie85

cotsvale wrote:

I tried the BSM lessons through Tesco vouchers for my daughter and was very disappointed. He would pick her up then drive her to the other side of Cheltenham (20 minutes) she'd drive around a bit in 1st gear and then he'd drive her back another 20 minutes. In the 6th & final hour of the voucher lessons he finally let her go into 2nd gear!!!!!!There are many driving schools which use my village and I could not understand why he had to drive her miles away. She is a bright and capable girl (8A*& 2A grades at GCSE) and we found the whole thing frustrating. It could be that it was just this particular instructor or I wonder if BSM drag these voucher lessons out so that they don't lose out on too many lessons when you are paying them directly????I wanted to complain but didn't know where I stood because it was a voucher deal. Needless to say really - we changed driving schools.

It could be that the test center was in the area where he took her? when I was learning a few years ago, I live in Norwich but on my very first lesson I was taken all the way down to Lowestoft to do the same as your daughter because thats where I was going to take my test, so I got a feel for the area from the off, which I thought was fair enough even if 1/2 the lesson was driving straight down he dual carrageway :cool:

Dormouse

cotsvale wrote:

I tried the BSM lessons through Tesco vouchers for my daughter and was very disappointed. He would pick her up then drive her to the other side of Cheltenham (20 minutes) she'd drive around a bit in 1st gear and then he'd drive her back another 20 minutes. In the 6th & final hour of the voucher lessons he finally let her go into 2nd gear!!!!!!There are many driving schools which use my village and I could not understand why he had to drive her miles away. She is a bright and capable girl (8A*& 2A grades at GCSE) and we found the whole thing frustrating. It could be that it was just this particular instructor or I wonder if BSM drag these voucher lessons out so that they don't lose out on too many lessons when you are paying them directly????I wanted to complain but didn't know where I stood because it was a voucher deal. Needless to say really - we changed driving schools.

I guess that was just bad luck and a rubbish instructor -- did you ever ask him why he had to drive her somewhere else?

I've done the Tesco BSM package and was very pleased. Did not feel that they were 'dragging out' the voucher lessons at all, and was not made feel weird in any way for not 'paying' for the lessons in normal money . On the contrary, most of my lessons lasted 15-20 minutes longer than I'd 'paid' for! :T

So I would definitely recommend the Tesco package (the price has gone up to £60 in vouchers AFAIK, but it does include 6 hours driving, 2 on the simulator plus all the books and CD-roms you'll ever need.

Sallys_Savings

Sorry to hear that you weren't pleased with your package. I have twin sons and for their 18th we had said we'd pay for their driving lessons, so this came in really handy. The driving instructor certainly didn't drag there lessons out...in fact one of my sons passed his test after only 10 lessons..so i couldn't fault their instruction at all. Sadly the other son didn't pass first time but now hes in the army (as mentioned in the post above) they teach you to drive for free......and woooooooooohooooooooooo hes passed now too after just one days driving (incidently that was with a BSM instructor too).
Good luck with your driving!!!

milkydrink

Can you please tell me what this Tesco's & BSM offer is?

My daughter is studying her theory & plans to start taking lessons soon.

Many thanks
Kim

ultraviolent

I might be wrong, but I've just found this while searching for the offer mentioned above

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/browse.aspx?N=4294967150&bid=HMotoring

Looks like a very good deal. Shame my parents dont have a tesco clubcard.

Dormouse

ultraviolent wrote:

I might be wrong, but I've just found this while searching for the offer mentioned above

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/browse.aspx?N=4294967150&bid=HMotoring

Looks like a very good deal. Shame my parents dont have a tesco clubcard.

Yep, that's the one.

I didn't realise you could have just the one lesson with your Clubcard points! £15.50 in vouchers is quite a lot compared to the usual 4x the value, but still better than BSM's normal rates, I guess.