B+E Lesson costs?

[Sessle]

I've been e-mailing around for some quotes on having some lessons for B+E test (car & trailer) and was just wondering what other people had paid for lessons, how long the lessons were and in what area these were? Just cuz these quotes seem to be astonomical! I knew it was expensive, but totalling 600 quid for 3 days :O Just want to make sure I'm not being ripped off!

 

[amiacat]

I paid £90 for a 3 hour lesson. And I had about 5 of these in total. That was in Exeter, Devon. It seemed expensive at the time but it was a good instructor and I passed first time!

 

[JVB]

I'm paying £170 for a full day soon, from 9am to 3.45pm in my car with his trailer, also paying £20 to use his trailer during the test. I'm only having one day as have been towing last two years with L plates.

 

[ester]

540 for 3x 3 or 4 hour lessons and the test included.

 

[Kallibear]

I'm paying £170 for a full day soon, from 9am to 3.45pm in my car with his trailer, also paying £20 to use his trailer during the test. I'm only having one day as have been towing last two years with L plates.

Just passed mine

I have to say I think you'll struggle with that! It's really tiring concentrating for the three hours - there's no way you'll manage for the whole day!

Having driven a trailer for years with L-plates won't really help - it's more likely to make it worse! It's not the pulling the trailer part that's hard, it's the correct driving and undoing all those bad habits all experienced drivers pick up!! The driving part is examined to a much higher standard than the normal driving test.

The hitching, unhitching and questions and trailer check is easy (they do want it done in the correct, certain order though, so again having used a trailer for years may mean bad habits!). The manouvering's pretty easy too once you've practised it a few times. The lessons are 90% driving practise - you'll only spend an hour or in total on the hithching/reversing/questions.

It cost just under #500 for a three day course - two half days of lessons than a half day of lessons and the test. It'd well worth getting the lessons - you're pretty much garunteed to fail without.

I would also recommend getting a 'normal' driving lesson first too - they'll hopefully start ironing out any bad habits then the first day of trailer lessons won't be too depressing (as I discovered, and other on here agreed!)