Skid Pan / Defensive Driving Courses.

Arfa__

My wife recently passed her test, and has been driving well, however she is still quite inexperienced. She's been taking a while to get used to our car (Zafira) coming from her instructors car (Fiesta/Focus). That said, she passed her full bike license about 13 years ago, so isn't a total newbie to the road.

As her birthday is coming up in couple weeks, I was considering treating her to one of those Skid Pan or Defensive Driving courses. Figured it might be quite good fun, but also a good learning opportunity.

Has anyone been on one of these courses? How was it? Did you gain much? Do you think they would be beneficial to a new driver? Any recommendations of courses in East London/Essex area?

Hammyman

Sign her up to an IAM or RoSPA course. It'll help tremendously and also lower her insurance.

jaks111

Hammyman wrote: »

Sign her up to an IAM or RoSPA course. It'll help tremendously and also lower her insurance.

thanks can i ask what these courses are and are they suitable for a 18 year female that has just passed her test we are looking at buying a car but we are looking around to try and lower the insurance if possible
thank you

please only leave kind comments which are helpful to us no horrible ones as in she should of thought about the insurance before she started driving etc

Mr_Thrifty

They are most suited to 17 and 18 year old males that want to learn to do 360 degree doughnuts in tesco car park and powerslides around roundabouts, but don't want to wreck their own car (typically a 1.4 litre Corsa or a 1.3 litre Citroen Saxo with sports body trim) whilst they are learning. LOL.

Seriously though, the IAM courses are great. I think a lot of company car fleets use the IAM to train their drivers to be alert and drive safely. However there is no substitute for experience so a good idea might be to let her do all the driving whenever you both go out in the car together.

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http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/LearnerAndNewDrivers/Passplusdrivingcoursefornewdrivers/index.htm

Kilty_2

jaks111 wrote: »

please only leave kind comments which are helpful to us no horrible ones

You don't post in the Motoring section very often do you?

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Kilty wrote: »

You don't post in the Motoring section very often do you?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::D

Mojisola

Arfa__ wrote: »

As her birthday is coming up in couple weeks, I was considering treating her to one of those Skid Pan or Defensive Driving courses. Figured it might be quite good fun, but also a good learning opportunity.

I was going to send my sons on one of these after they passed their tests until I read several articles that said you are more likely to have an accident after them. Whether it's because crazy drivers are more likely to go on them or whether they give you a false sense of your ability, I'm not sure.

Hammyman wrote: »

Sign her up to an IAM or RoSPA course. It'll help tremendously and also lower her insurance.

I would think PassPlus would be the first start, followed by Hammy's suggestions.

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Mojisola wrote: »

I would think PassPlus would be the first start, followed by Hammy's suggestions.

Link posted at Post # 5.;)