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I'm thinking of getting myself a real licence so I can drive a manual car, rather than "steer", and also widen my options for when I finally do get a new car (current shitbox of a Getz is 8 years old).

Does anyone know of a decent/good/awesome/fabulous driving instructor or school based in the Western Suburbs of Brisbane, or someone who isn't a festy weirdo who'll try to sell me Amway like the last one did...  :PDT_Armataz_01_26:

umm it was a while ago but i was with advanced driving school. but that was like in 03 when i was still in high school when i was doing it though.

Yeah, this is my problem at the moment, everyone I'd normally ask hasn't done it in ages or got sibs in that age-range, etc. And while I could just flip thru the phonebook/internet, well, that's what I did last time and he wanted to be a salesman more than a driving instructor, lol  :PDT_Armataz_01_14:

Dad: "Why on earth do you want to learn how to drive a manual?"
Me: "I already technically know how to drive a manual. I'm just not licensed to do so."
Dad: "But why manual??"
Me: "I could also take up stained-glass painting... or renew my First Aid Cert so I can revive you."
Dad: *strange look*

I can teach you if you want.  I've done it quite a few times for cars and bikes.

My dad just let me loose in the paddock until I figured out how not to stall it.

I'd been driving tractors before then, but they're a bit different. You pretty much just stop every time you change gear. In top gear/high range you release the clutch slowly and it will take off. There's no synchro so trying to change gears while its moving just makes bad noises.

Thanks for your story donut, practically solves Jazzy's question :P

In my uncles old Massey Ferguson (looked a lot like this http://www.machineryzone.eu/used/farm-tractor/2017413/massey-ferguson-130.html) I used to take off in 2nd highest then use plenty of six year old elbow grease to jam it into top gear for top speed of ~35kmh.  Again, no practical use for Jazz though topical as I used to drive this tractor when we were picking potatoes.

This is the tractor thread, and we don't need known trolls like you ruining it for the rest of us.

That tractor is pimp.
You should see the new Fendt tractors, I think they're a german brand. They look like a space ship inside, and they don't even have gears any more, its all CVT.

Hokay, rocking up to manual drivers' test in a TRACTOR!!! :D

Seriously though... when I first started learning to drive, I was actually taking the test already over in Malaysia. They're not as lunatic as Thailand, but they're pretty far up there on the scale. Anyways, the driving school/testers over there had some thing going on and they wanted a bribe which I refused to do so I got "failed". When I came over here I started Uni etc, and the learners licence lapsed (no car), so I went and sat for a local licence... and failed epically because I was driving like a Malaysian, hadn't driven in a couple years at the time (this was before they brought in logbooks and minimum hours), and I also stalled it when the dick of a tester asked me to do a reverse parallel park on a hill.

So I know how to and have driven manuals, I just haven't done so in more than 10 years...

Lol, thanks for the offer, but tbh I don't trust myself to not potentially dent or wreck the clutch/gears until I remember how to do shit. Not gonna do that to your car/s, mate.

Also don't want to embarrass myself completely...  :-[

They say driving a manual car is like riding a bike... once you learn you never forget... I dispute this piece of urban lore though as I had not been behind the wheel of a manual vehicle since taking my driving test more than 10 years ago... every car I'd driven in between had been an auto...

Then I started this job, and what do ya know, two of the fleet vehicles are manuals... so I take one of the D-Max utes for a drive out to Dalby during my first week... think I'm doing pretty well too... til I hit the top of the Toowoomba range and stall the bastard... with a buttload of cars queuing up behind... thankfully recovered pretty quickly but geeze... embarrassment ++

So to all the people who say it's just like riding a bike and you never forget... Screw you!  :)

Do you need a different license in QLD to drive manual? In NSW it matters for p platers, but once you have a full license it doesn't matter. I taught my wife how to drive manual many years after she had her full license.

On a side note, I watched Mad Max the other day, and his super awesome pursuit car at the start, was an auto.

I drove manuals for about 12 years,  the 5 years ago I inherited an auto, and I'll probably never go back to manual. My car makes bad gear decisions from time to time, but when you're stuck in peak hour traffic, an automatic transmission makes up for all of that. I also don't enjoy driving, I know some people do, I can't fathom why, but they do.

the only diffrence in the licence is that there is a little letter saying if you can or not....

tbh driving a manual is incredibly easy once u get the hang of the concept behind changing gears and what not

i prefer chamberlain tractors.. serious old school elegance..

My favourite is Massey-Ferguson followed by International Harvester, then Shibaura. John Deere can choke on my dick

Interesting side note
Australia auto is extra on a new car
America manual(stick) is extra on a new car.
Or so I heard.
Do as my sister in law did buy the car go f@#k I cant drive manual then learn in the local shopping center car park industrial estate after hours.
Or just test drive lost of manual cars, you should pick it up fairly quickly and if you run fast enough wont have to pay for damage

...can't "test drive" or buy anything legally as my license doesn't have the required letter... =_=

That's a brilliant idea though, Carples! :D

My dad has his Instructors license but unfortunately his still over seas 

Teach you in the skyrine Jazzy, should be easy enough.

can I watch :P

I thought we all could.  Should be entertaining.  :)

Oh dear god.... ~_~¥

2nded.....looks like we all take a trip out to the skid pan, bring a carton or such, a few chairs and we have an evening entertainment.

you find the skidpan, I'll provide the cartons.

calling mount cotton tomorrow then..

but they has noise limit and dont like my car

damn.. any other idea's....

Yeah, mines loud too.  Find us some private bitumen d00d.

Lol, oh god this is not going to be pretty... but if it makes y'all lol, whatever... :PDT_Armataz_01_14:

how about here
http://goo.gl/maps/WKSED

just hope the cops have removed all the surveillance gear