Don't let this put you off doing a test in Redditch. It was only so hard because I couldn't see the sat nav screen too well but on a real test the examiner would be there to guide you. I don't know which part of the test would use the sat nav as only 20 minutes is done like that, not all of it.

It’s simple. You’ve just gotta take the exit, then take the exit and take the exit then keep right and take the exit before you take the exit and then take the exit. Keep right.

@ginchan11

5 жыл бұрын

Ultima2876 😭😭🤣🤣

Absolutely wetting myself watching it take you in circles!!!!

This was so funny ,I'm going to watch this again, hope you are better soon.

Hi just wanted to say I have watched all your videos and have found them really informative and useful as I am a PDI at the moment. Keep up the good work and thanks. 👍

Thanks very much for posting this. It was both very entertaining, funny and informative.

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

I'm aiming to make my videos more fun from now on but still with a lot of educational content in.

I agree, you HAVE to know the area as there will be unexpected tricks almost guarantee. I came in my own car to Cheetham Hill test centre and failed at the end of a test by going 30mph not noticing a portion of the road having 20mph zone because of the school. I just haven`t noticed the sign as I was concentrating on the road markings and cars around me for safety in that area.

I would've probably struggled with this one. When learning I had a kind of anxiety of roundabouts. I never knew where anyone was going, as most of the time they never signaled, and when they did they signaled incorrectly. I still have a little hesitation as I still get loads of drivers who think we're all psychic. That test is a very challenging one, and the sat nav didn't make it any easier. Sat navs are ok, but like this video shows, they can be very confusing.

i had to keep stopping the video because i was laughing so much it brought tears to my eyes. I have had this with a Tom Tom Sat Nav, it just kept sending me in circles lol. In the end I had to go off route by about a mile for it to get me back on track. Since then I will not use Tom Tom Sat Navs. Great video Paul as always.

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I found Garmin's were very good, I had one for a couple of years so I could read the speed off it when I couldn't see the cars speedo from the passenger side.

I did a similar thing few days ago at some round about, both left and right lanes I took led to the wrong exits, but got it right the third time around ... so glad to know even qualified instructors get it wrong sometimes :D - Great video to watch, funny as always - keep up the awesome videos :D

I've lived in Redditch since I was about 3 or 4 and I always love it when people try and navigate our ring roads 😂 when you get used to them, they really make sense

Sat nav having a loopy turn 😂😂

Keep right and take the exit, after taking the exit, before the second exit *SatNav meltdown.. 😨

This is legit hilarious! I'm so glad I got following road signs on my test instead 😂

This was quite funny and entertaining to watch but I can imagine how annoying it was. Feel sorry for people who have to take their test there.

Brilliant video and a blast from the past. I failed two tests in Redditch. My worst experience and one I would love your viewers to see is doing a hill start on Wharrington Hill in Greenlands, Redditch. You weren't that far from it in this video. Much much steeper than the one here! I dare you!

@1stdrive

4 жыл бұрын

I've tried to find this hill but I can't see it. If you can send a link from Google maps I'll take a look.

@davortexhd6668

4 жыл бұрын

@@1stdrive Thanks for the reply! The google maps street view doesn't show it to look that steep, but its awful! but approaching the brow going up and to make a turn out whilst holding the bite gave me many sleepless nights lol maps.app.goo.gl/7P2JiKxPvSkgEpUH7 thanks for getting back! It's not far from the Macdonald's you were referencing that you have been before, here's the route from there: maps.app.goo.gl/PzeMbedvgYfVMsSGA

I live in Redditch and am currently learning how to drive, I've always thought that the number of roundabouts was just normal across the UK since I've never driven outside of Redditch before. I think we just get used to them. The part where you did the hill start, usually the examiner will ask you to do a reverse parallel park there because of all the cars on the side. It's also a good place to learn meeting points.

I live in Redditch and passed my test 1st time in November. I live by the MacDonald island. I had the last part you drove that steep hill ( the last one the Mayfields) and then the route back to the test centre on my test I had it at the beginning of my test. And ye Redditch is roundabouts everywhere 😊

Lived in redditch when I was growing up . Iv now lived in cornwall for 18 years and when we visit family back in redditch I always get my partner to drive as all the roads look the same to me haha

Come do one in Telford. Lots of fast roads but lots of roundabouts!

Was funny to watch but also very interesting

@1stdrive

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, a lot of people seem to like this video :-D

I think that tower you were looking at is called a 'minaret'. A spire on a mosque.

you know where you went wrong, by using a damn tom tom, when you do eventually get out of that cloverleaf find a bin and use it

A bit of Redditch history. The road on the left hand side of the first roundabout you went straight on at used to be the local swimming pool. It was open for many decades and was closed when they built a new one

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

The one where the black car didn't signal?

@emmaholman8407

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the one where the black car didn’t signal. No surprise with redditch drivers. They expect us to be mind readers and know where they’re going

@davortexhd6668

5 жыл бұрын

Hewell road swimming pool, I used to go there too

I’ve never heard the words ‘take the exit’ so many times in such a short period of time 😂😂

@1stdrive

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I call it the Brexit route.

Fantastic video, been waiting for a video like this for ages! I've got the new fiesta zetec (67 plate) and I found that it struggles at 30mph in 4th gear as well and I've only got 5 gears. Do you notice that when you go downhill, it feels like its accelerating without you pressing the gas pedal?

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

I've had about 10 new Fiesta's from 2009 to 2018 so I've been through a few different revisions and at least 5 different engine sizes and power outputs. When they changed the diesel engine size from 1.4 to 1.5 I found it didn't like 4th so much but all other cars I've ever had liked 4th at 30mph. This one I have now can do it but if you drop to just 29mph it flashes at you to change to 3rd. I haven't noticed them rolling away down hills any more than any other car I've had.

@Dominate955

5 жыл бұрын

@@1stdrive Yeah, I think the zetec used to be a 1.25 and now its 1.1. It tells me to gear up at 30mph and it makes that horrible sound when you change gear too early. Before I owned the Fiesta I had a much older car, so maybe its just me how it automatically accelerates. It may have something to do with saving fuel or maintaining the desired speed. My parents have a Seat Toledo, and they notice something similar. But, it is a fantastic car and its so easy to drive.

Hey man I have my test in Redditch next week can u give me any tips seen as you have been driving in Redditch????

How confusing so glad I didn't do my test in redditch and I was in absolute stitches just how confusing it was

I can relate 2 this, in my opinion tomtoms are crap, i did a MOK test with a relative in the car of an area i wasn’t used 2 and the passenger kept quiet and i got sent the wrong way by it, ended up in the same place again n it sent me a different way, whenever i use my i-phone i find the sat nav much clearer n easier on

take the exit then take the exit

I’m so glad I didn’t have to do the new test.

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

It's not much different to the old one. As for the next new test coming...

@smurfyhh

5 жыл бұрын

@@1stdrive is a new test coming ?

@octosmmpanel6477

5 жыл бұрын

??

I had to make a long detour because of a really bad accident and drive around a totally new area which I haven't been in before. That was stressful, but exciting.

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

Where was that? I hope it didn't involve a cloverleaf.

@hegotaspare

5 жыл бұрын

Peakirk off the A16. Thankfully nothing like in the video. And thankfully I had a sat nav.

11:52 take the exit then take the exit LOL

I kinda want to try and tackle Redditch. I've passed but it looks complicated :D

@1stdrive

4 жыл бұрын

Give it a go, it's certainly interesting :-D

Omg I'm crying watching this 😂

How much like a wally did you feel shooting the thumbnail photo?

Hi, which test route would you recommend out if Redditch, Dudley and Wolverhampton for taking a driving test? Thanks

@1stdrive

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know Dudley and I've only been on one test from Wolverhampton so I don't know :-(

The SatNav wasn't calculating its route properly after you missed a turn. I'd just use Google Maps outside of a test rather than that.

Take the exit, then take the exit.

Reminds me of when I did my test in Redditch. Passed 3 years ago in june

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, I did think of you when I was editing this. I was wondering if you were still around.

@emmaholman8407

5 жыл бұрын

I’m still around. I was driving around Birmingham a lot a couple of weeks ago. My friend was in the women’s hospital and I went to visit her a few times and I had an appointment in kings heath. I still learn things when driving

@emmaholman8407

5 жыл бұрын

The silver fiesta at McDonald’s roundabout was in the wrong lane. It used to be that you used to go 3rd exit up the hill. The road markings used to be that you could go up the hill in both lanes. They’ve now changed that but people still do it wrong

How badly does a satnav have to fail to make the journey MORE confusing?!

Have you ever taken an advanced test with IAM or Rospa etc?

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

I started doing IAM a few months after I passed the L test but then I just went straight for the part 2 ADI test. They're all around the same level and I think it's more important to drive safely than be able to complete a box ticking exercise.

@mjones8778

5 жыл бұрын

1stdrive. I agree, I have done IAM and Rospa in Car, Coach and Artic Lorry but ultimately it is about driving standards and awareness and forward planning. The DVSA align themselves to Driving Skills syllabus rather than Roadcraft manual. If you have never driven a bus or a truck then I recommend if you can to get out in one. It would give you a greater understanding and enhanced thinking into what large vehicle drivers have to do, it is very much multi-tasking like what you were doing in this video. Education is the key as novice drivers nowadays tend to be taught to pass a test rather than fundamental driving skills, with little to no understanding or empathy to other road users such as cyclists, lorry and bus drivers.

@mjones8778

5 жыл бұрын

Lancashirelad I agree matey, totally different driving a large vehicle, so much more needed to be aware of it is mentally draining after a long day.

OK, I'm a learner, so this may be a stupid question, but what exactly does the satnav mean when it says "keep right"? Does it mean stay in the outside lane on a dual carriageway? Does it mean keep making right turns until told otherwise? Is it that the satnav is made in a country where they drive on the right & its reminding the driver not to drive on the left? Why?? If it were telling me to "keep left" I'd be thinking "well we all drive on the left in the UK, what do you mean - keep taking left turns until told otherwise, or what?" I'm sure I'm embarrassing myself with this question, but my reaction is "huh?"

@Ultima2876

5 жыл бұрын

Bob Smith it depends on the sat nav, but usually it just means ‘don’t go into the leftmost lane, it will make you exit and take you off course’. See how the left lanes here force you to exit unless you get out of them a bit early? It’s just warning you about that. It’s a fast way of saying ‘the left lane is going to make you exit, so don’t be in that lane’. Keep left is usually used when the road splits into two lanes and the rightmost lane leads you somewhere you don’t want to go - for example, at a motorway intersection where the left lane will take you south and the right lane will take you north. If you’re heading south it might say ‘keep left’.

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

When it says keep right it usually means stay on the road you're on and don't turn off when there's a slip road on the left. There's a test route by me where the examiner always has to explain that keep right means don't do anything.

Arrr too many screens!!!

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

I was going to film this with just the front cam but I'm glad I didn't or you'd have missed what was going on around me.

3 days from this video release I would pass my test in Redditch and I’m happy to be driving on redditch roads. :) P.S welcome to Redditch the roads are crap XD

I passed my test in this area

This is soooooo funny

Can you record your driving test with a dashcam?

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

Yes so long as the sound is off and the cameras don't record inside the car or any image of the examiner at all.

@nadim2769

5 жыл бұрын

1stdrive thanks

OMG Seriously... I can't...

shame we cant use google maps or waze on the test tomtom sucks

@1stdrive

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, there was a time that TomTom was the best you could get but they have fallen behind in recent years. I preferred the older look of their maps from around the year 2000 when it was more cartoony.

@jayjay378378

5 жыл бұрын

yeah i agree . i think thats why alot of cars have apple carplay or android auto now . also with the sign recognition my wife has a brand new yaris that has this feature and that too doesn't always work , if a sign is partially obstructed or dirty it wont change, so like you said just a basic guide .

@jayjay378378

5 жыл бұрын

@Harry M i have never had a issue with it in the 5 years ive been using it .my car has a built in sat nav but i prefer to use waze i travel from southampton to Perth scotland a few times a year and its always been spot on

@Carlostype

5 жыл бұрын

That TT is annoying, i use Google maps, its quite reliable for me and the updates are improving it although each to their own

@jayjay378378

5 жыл бұрын

@@Carlostype i found waze has got even better now google own waze

Don't no why they changed the test to Sat nav .Think there over rated and just confuse people .Most people get frustrated by them aspeciaily if you've got a car with wife and kids moan lol

Take the brexit take the brexit sounds like a remainers sat nav

@monikaskowera-mneimneh9371

5 жыл бұрын

Funny :D

Sorry but how on earth are you qualified to teach when you can't even follow simple sat nav instructions. There was nothing difficult about that route, you never even bothered to indicate when you where exiting the dual carriageway .

@Ibi-cm4ul

5 жыл бұрын

SWFC.shut up