Driving Lessons Wantirna

Mitcham VicRoads, at 93A Heatherdale Road, Ringwood, about 5.9 kilometres from Wantirna and roughly ten minutes. Put the street address into your phone rather than the office name, because the name and the suburb it sits in are different places.

No. Ringwood VicRoads does not conduct drive tests. What confuses people is that the office which does, Mitcham VicRoads, is also in Ringwood, on Heatherdale Road. Two offices, one suburb, and only the Heatherdale Road one conducts drive tests.

Yes, and at around ten minutes it works properly rather than being a compromise. You keep roughly forty minutes of a 60 minute driving lesson. For the final drive test preparation we would suggest starting at the office instead, but from here that is a suggestion, not a necessity.

It is close enough to be your call. Ten minutes each way costs you about a third of an hour, which is real but not decisive. Our suggestion is to meet at Mitcham VicRoads for the last driving lessons before your drive test, because that hour on the testing roads is the most valuable one you will book.

On the established residential streets behind the main roads. Because Mountain Highway, Stud Road and Boronia Road take almost all of the suburb's traffic, the streets behind them are genuinely quiet, and a beginner can work for several driving lessons without anyone pushing along behind.

Yes, and they come late in the order because they are the demanding part of driving here. Both are wide, multi-lane and constant, so changing lanes with traffic either side and turning right across a steady stream are practised on roads that genuinely ask for it.

Turning right across a multi-lane arterial. Mountain Highway and Stud Road both carry a lot of traffic at a decent pace, and judging a gap that is safe for the whole width of the road takes practice. It is exactly the sort of decision the drive test is interested in.

That depends on where you are starting. New learners often book five to ten, learners near their 120 hours usually three to five, and experienced overseas drivers commonly two to five. Your driving instructor will give you a straight answer after the first driving lesson.

Yes, and from Wantirna it is easy to organise. Your driving lesson runs on the roads the testing officers use and the drive test follows straight on, so you go in warmed up instead of cold. It is also the best price we offer.

Mostly the rules rather than the driving. Victorian road rules first, then the local conditions, which here are almost entirely about the multi-lane arterials and turning across them. Being ten minutes from the office means preparation can be concentrated where it counts.

It is a well balanced one. Quiet established streets to start on, genuinely busy arterials in the same suburb for when you are ready, and a testing office about ten minutes away. Very little of a driving lesson is spent getting anywhere useful.

The residential streets have kerbside parking and hardly any passing traffic, which is where reverse parallel parking should start. The local shopping centre car parks give you bay parking with pedestrians and someone waiting, which is the version most people actually find difficult.