If you book a course in a manual gearbox car, you will have to learn to coordinate the use of the clutch and gears as part of your driving test, but if you pass your test in a manual car, you will also be qualified to drive an automatic. An automatic car will change gear for you, so there’s less for you to worry about in your handling of the car. However, if you take your test in an automatic car you will not be licensed to drive a car with a manual gearbox. Around 90% of cars in the UK are manual gearbox cars, but automatic lessons will be more expensive than lessons in a manual car.

fastPass offers 2 different types of course, depending on your requirements.

Our Standard course is organised locally to yourself with a test booked for the end of the week, arranged in accordance with standard test availability at your local centre. This means that if the waiting list for tests locally is currently 9 weeks, then a test will be booked for 9 weeks time and the driving course arranged leading up to that test date.

Our Residential course is usually conducted from SWANSEA, although other locations can be arranged. Residential courses are usually available more quickly than our Standard course, and typical availability is 2 to 4 weeks in Swansea. Although you would have add the extra cost of accommodation and travel to our quoted cost of the course, a residential course in Swansea could still offer a cost-effective solution, if the cost of the course is cheaper than you local area, and the difference in lesson prices could help offset the extra travel and accommodation expenses you will incur.

Include any hours done with a professional driving instructor and any hours with friends or relatives.

There may be good reasons why you might have been unable to continue a regime of driving practice after you originally started to learn to drive, but if you last drove some time ago it may mean you need to recover your “mojo”. You’ll be surprised how much you actually remember once you restart your tuition, but the longer it was since you last got behind the wheel of a car, the more likely it will be that it will have an influence the course that we recommend for you.

As a general rule, the older you are, the more lessons you’ll probably need to become test competent, and we’ll take this into account when recommending the best course for you.