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[Jordan]

Anyone Know What the Rules are (For The NSW P's Test) Regarding Stopping at Lights.

Are you supposed to:

Keep it in gear with the clutch in?

or

Put in in Neutral and Let the Clutch Out?

[Morgan]

On your ps test, you can never be out of gear (unless youre between changing gears)

So option A

[Jordan]

How sure are you Morgan?
Cause ive heard different from heaps of people, and 2 driving instructors said different things...

[skillionaire]

'salty rooster'

Hahaha.

[Morgan]

If your car is sitting in neutral, you have no control over it. During your test, you are supposed to be in control of your car 100% of the time.

Even if there was some discrepancies between instructions, I would always go with the 'always in gear' option.

Not every instructor is the same and you might be ok to do it but personally I wouldn't risk it. Lights are red for a couple of mins and the test is what? Half an hr?

My advise is to over-accentuate EVERYTHING! Whenever the car moves over 1m to the left or right, you're supposed to do a head check. Make sure the tester knows you're doing a head check. You're supposed to check the review mirror once every 10sec or something. Make a big deal out of this. As in move you whole head not just your eyes so that the instructor can see youre doing it!

[Morgan]

And pay attention to every road sign. During my test, the instructor decided to start a conversation right as I was approaching a hidden stop sign. I saw it, answered her question, stopped, did a hill start and we were all good.

[Jordan]

Thanks Morgan.

24 Days till Testing...

[Morgan]

You'll be fine mate!

[Shiv]

Jordon,


Do so many head checks that your not even looking at the road in front of you. If possible - grow a secondary head to check that the instructor is seeing your other head's head checks.

[skillionaire]

Just drive.

[Shiv]

Just drive.

If only he could just do that. Unfortunately he'll fail the test if he does.

The driving test requires you to keep stupid distances between cars both in traffic and when joining a main road. They tell you not to worry about the cars in your rear view mirror as all that matters is your abiding by the law.

Personally - I recall dumbing down my driving style just to pass the test. As Mark Skaife said - kids learn how to pass the test, not drive the car.

[skillionaire]

I think the three second gap is a good rule, but I do understand what you're saying. It's been a while since I did mine, so I'll just pipe down.

[Morgan]

[skillionaire]

I'll pay that..

[Delete This Account]

[Morgan]

What colour do you want your Bimmer today, Sir?

Ummmm, rust please

[skillionaire]

When living in massively populated countries, striving to be different and unique leads people down this path of faggotry - but I think it looks kind of cool? I'm disliking it every time I look at the pictures, more and more, so I can only imagine how crap it would feel to own it.

[RX25SE]

Anyone Know What the Rules are (For The NSW P's Test) Regarding Stopping at Lights.

Are you supposed to:

Keep it in gear with the clutch in?

or

Put in in Neutral and Let the Clutch Out?

On your ps test, you can never be out of gear (unless youre between changing gears)

So option A

Way to fugg the clutch!

[RX25SE]

Mmmm...

If he was serious he would have sectioned it, as well as chopped it.

[Morgan]

Lol it's only for the test...

So washed the Outback this morning - first time since the 4WD course last weekend.

Looks like I've damaged the front bar a little more than first thought! It's been covered in mud for a week so didn't even realise!

Bit hard to tell but that first pic is of the air dam. It seems I've dug it into the ground too hard and now the paint is all cracked and bubbling and scratched!