Penalty for driving manual when on p's

Originally Posted by deesun

I believe that in NSW if you get your red P's in an auto you only have to drive an auto for 12 months then without so much as a wahoo you can magically drive a manual,no practice no test no brains. Also in NSW on your red P's you can practice for the world stunt driving championships with 4 drunken mates in the car as well.

Only in a VN Commodore

[notty1978]

my wife is on her red P.s in n.s.w and she got caught on wendsday driving my XR8 manual
because she has had her p.s for more then 6 months they let her go

[cupic]

I concurr that experience in a auto for a while then hit the manual

[Trevor 57]

Originally Posted by foxtrot

. . . and im pretty much perfect, got hill start first go.. smooth perfect take off on the flat everytime.. I can still pay perfect attention to the road and whats going on around me and I don't need to pay attention to the gears and clutch so often.

learning to handle the car etc in an auto is great

P.S. I GO FOR MY P'S ON WEDNESDAY, GOT ANY TIPS TREV lol

Geez, you are doing well, I have been driving for 31 years and I wouldn't call myself "perfect" _2:



And my biggest tip: DO YOUR FAMILY A FAVOUR AND STAY ALIVE AFTER YOU GET YOUR LICENCE!!!! :

[foxtrot]

Originally Posted by Big_Trev

Geez, you are doing well, I have been driving for 31 years and I wouldn't call myself "perfect" _2:



And my biggest tip: DO YOUR FAMILY A FAVOUR AND STAY ALIVE AFTER YOU GET YOUR LICENCE!!!! :

ahh not perfect but you know what i mean. Yes I will try my Hardest to stay alive :P

[MoreHPformyXR6]

My old man made me drive a manual & go for my licence in a manual. I hated it it the time as lot of my mates where able to go for there test in an auto. But im so glad i learnt in a manual now. They softened up my brother & let him learn to drive in an auto & go for his test in an auto only fours years late to. Then ago as my parents both had manuals i could drive them he couldnt. My brother has only driven auto's he'd have no idea how to drive a manual he's still got his first car auto toyota starlet. I have had about 10 or 12 cars my first car was 13.5 second quater mile HJ Prem 327cubes turbo400 auto. My second car was an LJ XU1 that ran 12.2 quater its was my fastest car ive ever owned or driven & it was manual. Do parent's expect more from there oldest son?

[foxtrot]

Originally Posted by MoreHPformyXR6

My old man made me drive a manual & go for my licence in a manual. I hated it it the time as lot of my mates where able to go for there test in an auto. But im so glad i learnt in a manual now. They softened up my brother & let him learn to drive in an auto & go for his test in an auto only fours years late to. Then ago as my parents both had manuals i could drive them he couldnt. My brother has only driven auto's he'd have no idea how to drive a manual he's still got his first car auto toyota starlet. I have had about 10 or 12 cars my first car was 13.5 second quater mile HJ Prem 327cubes turbo400 auto. My second car was an LJ XU1 that ran 12.2 quater its was my fastest car ive ever owned or driven & it was manual. Do parent's expect more from there oldest son?

Yep
Im an older brother and ur spot on

lol

[Woz]

Originally Posted by brodfloyd

what r u doing on a car enthusiast forum with only an auto licence in the first place???

I have an auto license. What's your point?

When I got my license I was living in a small country town. The closest instructor was three towns over, about twenty minutes away, and so when he was over my way he'd either be in his auto car for the day or his manual car. He wasn't doing one test in the manual, then driving back home to pick up his auto car just to come back again. It was one or the other, and the manual car was booked out for over a month. He had his auto car in town about three days after I first rang him so I just did it in that to beat the wait as I already had my first car, an XF panelvan with t-bar auto.

Being a country boy, I'd been driving around paddocks and bush tracks and whatnot for years and know quite well how to drive a manual, so that's not the drama. It's just that I didn't want to wait any longer to get my license.

Does that make me less of a car enthusiast? Does that mean that you're any better than I am? Because if that's what you think, I challenge you to a duel.

**Glove slap**

[eb91xr6]

You Have Some Bull ИИИИИ Ruls in VIC, Now i see how good SA realy is

[all4ford]

In NSW its just 3 points and a fine.

[Lightning Strike GT]

Jeeze I must be from the dark ages I did not know there is a difference between an auto or manual licence I thought the only difference was the class of licence from bikes to B Doubles and everything in between , but as I have always had a manual the subject has not come up.
Mine is a Type O Class C,R

[lou_focus]

I was checking this out the other day, but i am actually off my P's now, and they told me I need to have a licenced driver next to me and display a 'driving under instruction' thing on the back of my car which i think you just buy at vic roads. Hmm, that reminds me, i still havn't done anything about a manual myself, should do, specially if i get the turbo in my focus haha

[brodfloyd]

Originally Posted by Woz

I have an auto license. What's your point?

When I got my license I was living in a small country town. The closest instructor was three towns over, about twenty minutes away, and so when he was over my way he'd either be in his auto car for the day or his manual car. He wasn't doing one test in the manual, then driving back home to pick up his auto car just to come back again. It was one or the other, and the manual car was booked out for over a month. He had his auto car in town about three days after I first rang him so I just did it in that to beat the wait as I already had my first car, an XF panelvan with t-bar auto.

Being a country boy, I'd been driving around paddocks and bush tracks and whatnot for years and know quite well how to drive a manual, so that's not the drama. It's just that I didn't want to wait any longer to get my license.

Does that make me less of a car enthusiast? Does that mean that you're any better than I am? Because if that's what you think, I challenge you to a duel.

**Glove slap**

thems sound like alot of excuses for one thing, u being a big p.u.s.s.y : and yes it makes u not only less of a car enthusiast and also less of a man. and yes i am probably better than you

ps, heaps of other people live in a rural area and get their manual licence, eg me

[Fairmont I6]

never even heard of auto only licences!! is this in SA now?