Driving Lessons Kilsyth South

Mitcham VicRoads, at 93A Heatherdale Road, Ringwood. It is about 12.7 kilometres west of Kilsyth South and it is the office your driving lessons are built around. The address is worth writing down, because the name and the suburb do not match.

The one on Heatherdale Road, which VicRoads calls Mitcham VicRoads. Ringwood VicRoads is a separate office in the same suburb and it does not conduct drive tests, though it remains open for other business. Getting the two confused is easy and costly on test day.

It is a naming quirk rather than a mistake. The office is called Mitcham and its address is 93A Heatherdale Road, Ringwood. If you navigate to Mitcham the suburb you will arrive somewhere else entirely, so use the road and the number.

About 12.7 kilometres, or roughly 21 minutes in ordinary traffic heading west, mostly along Canterbury Road. The suburb runs from flat ground into the foothills, so where you start moves that figure a fair way.

Yes, for ordinary driving lessons. For drive test preparation we would suggest meeting at the office on Heatherdale Road instead, or booking a 90 minute driving lesson, because at 21 minutes each way the travel takes most of a 60 minute booking.

It is a feature of the suburb and a useful one once you are ready. The pocket between Canterbury and Colchester Roads brings heavy vehicles onto local roads, so you learn to stay out of their blind spots and leave them room to turn. We keep first driving lessons well clear of it.

They ask more of you, and only at that end. The western side of Kilsyth South is flat ordinary suburban driving. Head east and the ground rises with bends arriving at the same time, so speed control and steering have to be deliberate. We build up to it rather than starting there.

The residential streets on the flatter western side, away from the industrial roads. Quiet, with parked cars along the kerb and no heavy traffic finding its way through.

It is the main east to west arterial through this area, multi-lane and busy, so it asks for lane discipline and turns set up well ahead. It is also most of the route towards the office, which makes it useful practice twice over.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Kilsyth South 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 heavy vehicles on one side of the suburb and rising winding roads on the other. Your driving lessons work through all of it before the Mitcham VicRoads drive test.