Driving Assessment on own car

[Morte]

Hi PHers,
I remmeber reading in EVO a few years back about this bloke who sits next to you in your own car, on the road, and turns you into a godlike (and safer) driver. It cost 500ish for a day I believe. Does such a service still exist? If so, have any of you PHers tried it?
Many thanks,
Paul Morte

[LordGrover]

RideDrive would be my choice but there are many out there.

Contact Bob, 5.0ltr

[Morte]

That was fast. I shall do that. Thanks!

[Morte]

Morte said:

That was fast. I shall do that. Thanks!

Bah, I have to wait before I can contact people as I'm less than 24hrs old.

[5.0ltr]

Thanks Grover! Hi Paul, guess I cannot promote business here but willing to chat when you are `free`..If you still want advice etc.

[IT1GTR]

There is Cadence too: http://www.cadence.co.uk/

I believe some of there instructors are also HPC gatekeepers

[Synchromesh]

Or, for a quarter of the price, IAM Skill for Life. In my opinion IAM isn't the 'be all and end all' but it makes a starting point and means you can get more out of a day's coaching with people like Cadence and RideDrive. Another option would be the HPC entry course, which is 2 and a half days, but again you'd need to have done IAM or Rospa first.

Think of it like this
- 'L' test is a GCSE in driving
- IAM / Rospa are A-levels in driving
- Cadence/Ridedrive/HPC are degrees in driving.

Your degree 'professor' will just end up teaching you A-level stuff if you're only at GCSE standard to begin with.

[Synchromesh]

IT1GTR said:

I believe some of there instructors are also HPC gatekeepers

Only Hugh Noblett.

Outside of Cadence the other HPC gatekeepers are Clive Jones and Andy Morrison, the former of which I can vouch for.

[Morte]

Thanks all, this is all super helpful. I'm going on one of those Italian lakes drives in 1950s alfas next year so I feel I'd enjoy it more if I could drive properly.