Driving Lessons Forest Hill

Mitcham VicRoads, at 93A Heatherdale Road, Ringwood. It is about 4.3 kilometres north east of Forest Hill and it is the office your driving lessons are built around, so the testing routes are familiar before test day.

No. The VicRoads office on Burwood Highway at Burwood East is closer to Forest Hill than the one you will actually test at, and it does not conduct drive tests. It is still open for other business, so it has not gone anywhere, but drive tests from Forest Hill happen at Mitcham VicRoads. It is an easy and very common assumption on this side of Melbourne.

It is a naming quirk rather than a mistake. The office VicRoads calls Mitcham sits at 93A Heatherdale Road, Ringwood. If you put Mitcham the suburb into your navigation you will arrive somewhere else, so use the road and the number instead, especially on test day.

About 4.3 kilometres, or roughly eight minutes in ordinary traffic. That puts Forest Hill inside the ten minute mark, so travel is not much of an issue for ordinary driving lessons.

Yes. Home, work or your local station all work, and at eight minutes from the office the travel is easily managed. For drive test preparation we would still suggest meeting at Mitcham VicRoads so the full hour goes on the roads you will be assessed on.

It is the busiest piece of driving in Forest Hill and the most worthwhile. Two multi-lane roads crossing means turning lanes, filter arrows and several things to watch at once. There is nothing mysterious about it once it has been explained and practised, and the roads around Mitcham VicRoads ask for the same skills.

The residential pockets well back from the main roads, towards Blackburn South and Vermont. Generous blocks, unhurried intersections and local traffic only, which is the right place to start.

For the early driving lessons, yes. Steady low-speed traffic, pedestrians and marked bays make it useful for getting used to the car and to moving among other vehicles. It does not teach you to judge a kerbside gap between parked cars though, which is what the drive test asks, so we move onto the streets for that.

On the residential streets away from the main roads, where cars are parked along the kerb in a normal line and there is time to take. That is the version the drive test assesses, and it is quite different from pulling into a marked bay at the shopping centre.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Forest Hill are in a small dual-control automatic, and that is also the car you would sit the Mitcham VicRoads drive test in if your package includes it. An automatic licence covers you for automatic cars, which is what most people in Melbourne drive now. If you specifically need manual, tell us when you book and we will give you an honest answer on whether we can cover it.

The same as everywhere else we teach. A 60 minute driving lesson booked as a package of three works out at $225, and packages that include the Mitcham VicRoads drive test start at $224. The full list is further down this page. The price does not change for weekends, public holidays, early mornings or evenings, which is worth checking when you compare quotes.

Start from our recommended ranges: 2 to 3 driving lessons if you already drive regularly in Melbourne, 3 to 5 for most overseas drivers, and 5 to 10 or more if you are still adjusting to Victorian road rules. They are ranges, not fixed minimums. The gap is rarely car control. It is Victorian road rules, and around here it is multi-lane intersections with several things to watch at once. Your driving instructor takes you through all of it ahead of the Mitcham VicRoads drive test.