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Funny driving instructor anecdotes

A teenage son of a friend of the family did their first lesson and complained that the instructor panicked and actually took over the steering from... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

@Lily I played violin as a child! Well, more like my parents told me to, and I stupidly gave up when I was 12 because of peer pressure - the other... see more

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Drink driving

Every driver I have ever booked for drinking (alcohol or non alcohol) or eating whilst behind the wheel has been convicted of either careless driving... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

@Drivingforfun hey, not snob at all! In another life, I played violin for years in an orchestra My favourite composer is Tchaikovsky, I love how... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

I like movie soundtrack type songs but also "proper" (in quotes as snob word I know) classical music as well! Usually the more intense stuff, though.... see more

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Drink driving

This one always confuses people — legally drinking while driving isn’t specifically banned, but it’s definitely risky. Even if you're under the... see more

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Driving test eyesight test

This is a surprisingly common concern, and you're not alone in wondering. The good thing is, you’re allowed to try without correction first — as long... see more

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Funny driving instructor anecdotes

Some of those had me properly laughing — especially the ones where learners panic and grab the gearstick or scream at roundabouts. I think every... see more

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Flax to replace Carbon Fibre

When they calculate the carbon footprint impact of carbon fibre, I'd argue it's justified to calculate a realistic fuel saving (due to the lightness)... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

@Drivingforfun Fair enough! Let’s tweak the question a bit then: what’s your favourite song at the moment? @Nick Beach Boys + summer =... see more

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Hill, Mirrors & Brakes – My Driving Lesson Bingo Card

Hi everyone, I think I accidentally completed a full set of beginner driving fails in one lesson today 😅 Started with a classic — hill start. Got... see more

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Waiting lists

It is my experience with the NHS specifically, that they will give 20 people the same appointment time. My cancer, which I had during Covid lockdown,... see more

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Oops

A friend's mother died a few years ago, and he asked me to help clear the house for sale. I have a trailer so it was loaded up similatrly to yourself... see more

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Are these people allowed to drive?

@Drivingforfun All I can say is that you ought to try navigating the M25. I have been using it since it opened both for work and social, and it is... see more

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What do you do about MOT Advisories? 1 in 6 drivers ignore them and suffer!

I always get advisories done asap. It is my experience that today's little niggles become tomorrow's headaches. In the same way if I am having a job... see more

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Oops

Today I was at my (bed-bound) grandmother's house waiting for a district nurse to arrive to look at a complication with a condition I was having a... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

Haha, I'm interested in what you mean by theatrical classical music @Drivingforfun - do you mean like film music, or epic trailer style music? see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

My starting gambit here would be to talk about some of things my parents used to play on our summer holiday road trips through France when I was a... see more

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What do you do about MOT Advisories? 1 in 6 drivers ignore them and suffer!

I must admit that this has been my thinking in the past, I'm less cynical these days and a lot of that is landing on a garage that you trust. I've... see more

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What do you do about MOT Advisories? 1 in 6 drivers ignore them and suffer!

Hi @Beelzebub - there's more data about the research on the article but yes, this is based on the answers of the people that took part in the RAC's... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

Sorry for the lame contribution to the thread, but I'd really have no idea - I like music and I like driving, but I've never grasped the concept of... see more

by Drivingforfun
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Flax to replace Carbon Fibre

I stumbled across this item; https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonheads/bmw-readies-flax-composite-for-series-production/49969 I like... see more

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What’s Your Ultimate Summer Track? Help Build the RAC 2025 Playlist!

By the way! You can share the YouTube link, the Spotify or simply the tile. Just show us your impeccable taste in music. 😎 see more

by Lily
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driving incident don’t know who’s in the wrong ?

Agree with Olduser. OP reversed into the path of another vehicle. see more

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Are these people allowed to drive?

There is nothing like cars, and driving, to bring out the beast in people, throw in the anonymity of a forum and we begin to see humanity at it's... see more

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Thought I Was Just Parking... Ended Up in a Full Panic

Hi all, I had one of those moments during my third driving lesson today. My instructor asked me to reverse into a bay at the supermarket car park.... see more

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