Learning in an automatic to pass manual test

mikey72

Wig wrote: »

Step 1. Choose an instructor you like

Step 2. Buy a wee car now, possibly trying to match the one the instructor is using. As you will be using the wee car the most until she passes her test, regisiter it in your name and have her as a named driver. When she passes and goes to Uni you can transfer it into her name, all legal and above board.

Step 3. Take her out to practice in your wee car.

Autos are expensive to repair have to be molly coddled through their lives (you can't do things to an auto that you can do with a manual) and they are expensive on fuel consumption.

I would learn in the manual, and practice in the automatic in between. (Apart from the one and only first time you drive one and de-clutch with the brake, there's no problem swopping from one to the other)

An old automatic never goes wrong, only the new ones need to be looked after. My second car was a Hillman Hunter auto, about 3 months after I passed my test. Superb car, and the auto would do about 45mph in reverse.