First day on the road!

[Nathan1305]

Finally got my insurance today and it's an awesome feeling! feel so free! Now I feel like I'm worthy of being on the forum haha

[RetroPug]

Congratulations!

[Nathan1305]

Congratulations!

Thank you! apart from the lack of power it feels great!

[7057sam]

Give It a fews weeks until things start to break

[Nathan1305]

Give It a fews weeks until things start to break

Yeah I'll have to do that

[Grant]

Congratulations. I can (just about) remember that feeling of a newfound sense of freedom. Enjoy it!

[C.A.R.]

First thing I did when I got my insurance through was go and pick my mate up, after a phone conversation. He was riding his bike to college and decided "f*ck this shit, come and pick me up from town"

It's difficult fitting a mountain bike into a Nova btw.

[1616six]

Congrats!

Just remember though... the real learning starts now!

[THE_Liam]

You are nowhere near as good as you think you are, be careful! 3 weeks after I passed I rolled my dads Bravo HGT because I thought I was Colin McRae...

[1616six]

You are nowhere near as good as you think you are, be careful! 3 weeks after I passed I rolled my dads Bravo HGT because I thought I was Colin McRae...

I spun my AX out into the path of an oncoming 40ft artic lorry whilst eating a double cheeseburger driving with my knees in the snow. Luckily I had enough time to floor it away (1.0 echo so had bhp's thank god)

Be careful kids.

[LewisG]

Ive been driving about 4 months now and ive had a few misses, but it does make you be more careful.

[THE_Liam]

You are nowhere near as good as you think you are, be careful! 3 weeks after I passed I rolled my dads Bravo HGT because I thought I was Colin McRae...

I spun my AX out into the path of an oncoming 40ft artic lorry whilst eating a double cheeseburger driving with my knees in the snow. Luckily I had enough time to floor it away (1.0 echo so had bhp's thank god)

Be careful kids.

That is a f*cking hilarious mental image!

I just wish I'd have been more careful, my dad still won't lend me his car

[ozonehostile]

I think I did about 300 miles the day I insured my first car haha.
Just got in and put as much fuel in I could afford and didn't go home until it ran out

[Niall]

You are nowhere near as good as you think you are, be careful! 3 weeks after I passed I rolled my dads Bravo HGT because I thought I was Colin McRae...

Dead?

[THE_Liam]

He wasn't dead then

[Nathan1305]

Thanks guys! haha those are some pretty funny stories I'm being as careful as I can so hopefully it all goes well

[silverzx]

Your not far from Cheddar Gorge, theres going to be a nice drifto meet on Saturday night if you fancy popping along.

[Nathan1305]

Your not far from Cheddar Gorge, theres going to be a nice drifto meet on Saturday night if you fancy popping along.

I'm at VW Audi show on Saturday :/ I'll have to come along to it when another ones on

[Toms306]

You don't have to go straight out and drive like a bellend, despite most people on here apparently doing so!

I never did back then. How times change!

[THE_Liam]

No one is encouraging him to Tom, we're warning him with the benefit of experience. Most of us were far more reckless as teenagers.

[Toms306]

See I just don't understand that at all. Experience just makes you take more risks I've found.... Would never even have thought about pushing hard round a wet corner when I passed my test. Now I want to know how far I can push the rainsports before ending up in a hedge! Which actually seems to be quite far, and further each time lol.

Same with overtakes, more experience means I make so many more near misses now than I ever did back then....would sit behind a cyclist for miles rather than risk overtaking when I'd just passed.

Maybe I'm just odd though.

[kentiiboii]

Yeah my first weekend of driving I smashed into a mates corsa by pratting about.
Be careful, id avoid friends that are new drivers too thats when you start showing off and accidents happen.

[Nathan1305]

I'm very safe I didn't mean I want more power to go faster it's just my car seems to need half-3/4 throttle to keep up with traffic sometimes, I'm guessing it's lambda sensor if the power is down and fuel consumption is up?

[Danny2009]

Just echoing everyone else take it steady.

I had my first car 3 weeks before I overtook someone on a lane span out at 75 and hit a tree needless to say I learnt the hard way, it's not because young drivers have fast cars they can't handle they crash it's the fact they make bad decisions due to lack of experience,

[THE_Liam]

Maybe I'm just odd though.

You think? Nah....

[Dum-Dum]

Congrats mate, as has been said the real learning starts now and TBH the moment you stop learning is the moment you become a bad driver.

First thing I did when I got my insurance through was go and pick my mate up, after a phone conversation. He was riding his bike to college and decided "f*ck this shit, come and pick me up from town"

Yeah I was about the same, first thing I did was double a speed limit then go and pick up my mate.

You are nowhere near as good as you think you are, be careful! 3 weeks after I passed I rolled my dads Bravo HGT because I thought I was Colin McRae...

Yep, 3 days after my test I flattened a traffic island in my 0.8 Daewoo Matiz in the wet. Hadn't left enough braking distance for the speed I was doing and there was a transit van blocking the nearside and half the offside lane so I picked the island rather than hit the van.

I think I did about 300 miles the day I insured my first car haha.
Just got in and put as much fuel in I could afford and didn't go home until it ran out

I was exactly the same although I think I managed about 150 miles. It was 2 days later on the weekend when all my mates chipped in petrol mone that I drove down to bournemouth cos we were bored. It was coming back from that I hit the island.

No one is encouraging him to Tom, we're warning him with the benefit of experience. Most of us were far more reckless as teenagers.

Yeah definitely not encouraging. I think the moment I realised what a dick I had been was a little while after I went back to driving* and got my mondeo, the first "fast" car I'd had and was driving down a road and thought the 50mph I was doing was a bit much and then remembered that I'd previously done 80mph down there. I still can't believe how much of a lady garden I was.

*I gave up driving for the larger half of a year after writing off 2 cars in 2 months, the second accident could of easily killed me so stopped to give myself a chance to grow up.

[Nathan1305]

Thanks for all the advice guys I promise to keep this 306 on the road and not in a hedge haha

[Connor]

Just write this car off, might as well get it over and done with. On that note im going avoid southmead even more now

[zx_volcane]

enjoy!

[Eeyore]

Congratulations... first day driving into school i handbrake turned into a parking space. Nailed it