Driving Examiners

Yeah, I failed first time due to a prick. He wasn't old, I'd say mid thirties, bald and quite fat.

He never uttered a word either and made me drive for 1 hour and 10 minutes. The prick then failed me due to entering a roundabout a bit too early, 100 frigging yards from the test centre. I drove flawlessly during the rest of the test =(

I re-took my test 1 month later (exams etc) and prayed it wasn't the same guy. As I waited in the lobby, the same guy came up and I thought 'Oh ****' but then he proceeded calling out someone else's name and moments after a lady came up and called my name. She was very sympathetic and chatted to me during the test. Eventually I passed .

And I kid you not, when I got my pass certificate and my instructor was about to drive away, the same guy that failed me first walked out of a vehicle with no documents in his hand, so I assumed that the unlucky person failed.

pff ive failed 3 times now, cos i get the same stuck up bitch that marks down every single thing and makes minors to majors , taking my test in another test centre cos of it ..

I failed today....thanks to a Miserable Old Man John who is the chief examiner of my local centre....complete prick!!!.....renound for being a prick. I Had a few minors on my sheet and stalled once thats fair enough but he sat in his chair silent and intimidating with Dark Blue glasses on not making conversation and generally making me feel nervous.....I know not all old people are like this guy but Euthanasia seemed a great idea after meeting this tosser...Watch out if you ever get an Instructor called John and he is old...he will fail you


Anyone had any experiences on Tests or with instructors..why did you fail?

I think only nice people should be allowed to be examiners, why make the student nervous?

My examiner was an absolute bitch, and was trying her very hardest to fail me. She was so surly through the whole test.
She asked me to do an emergency stop, which I did properly. She was flung forward a little and afterwards said "well, we won't be doing that again" in a demeaning manner. I mean wtf did she expect me to do? Some half hearted ******** so that she could sit comfortably while the imaginary child in front of the car got squished? Which she would have failed me for anyway.

She gave me 2 minors for driving through a puddle when the alternative was crossing onto the wrong side of the road on a blind bend. I was travelling at 20mph for it in a 60 limit because I realised the hazard, and the puddle was small enough that only 1 wheel would be over it at any moment (the rest of the road was dry). Despite this her reasoning was that we might have aquaplaned. LOL.

I tried to not let myself get rattled by her, and made no mistakes that could even be bent into majors.

Which made it funny when at the end of the test she added up her ridiculous bundle of minors and it came to 14. At that moment I was just thinking, in your face, bitch. You tried your hardest, and you failed.

It was seriously a joke of a test, but I didn't see the point in complaining; I had my pass.

My motorbike test started out with the examiner walking to a car saying 'I dunno why you want a bike, they're too dangerous, that's why I'm in a car'

and two other learners the same day he reduced to tears when they did something wrong during the test!

thats terrible! motorbikes are so much cooler then cars! Id love to learn to ride a motorbike. Id have to start with my CBT I guess and then work my way up! Id love some leathers tho!!

I enjoyed driving untill I stumbled across the world of driving in liverpool! its awful!!

ha,don't get me started, viseted a mate in Liverpool a few weeks back. Lets just say that finding a parking space was 'fun' but the appeal ran off after the 5th trip around a one way system

ha ha ha ha I totaly get you!!! I parked under a tree, and I mean half of it was poking through the window! its a nightmere!

was the bike test hard? is it like a car test? can you fail? how much is your insurance? so many questions!!!