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Cost of driving lessons

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Home, Law & Money
Hi everyone

Just trying to find out how much, on average, driving lessons cost. If you've had lessons recently would you mind posting how much they cost?

Thanks so much!

Hannah :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    girl with sharp teeth wrote: »
    It's been over 8 years since I did mine but they were a fiver an hour then :)

    WTF!?

    I did mine 11 years ago and they were £11 an hour.

    Where on earth were you living?!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £25 quid an hour is the goin rate at the min here afaik!

    rip off!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £18 an hour in York with a private instructor last year.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I passed 7 years ago and i was paying £12 an hour. More recently my OH passed 3 years ago and paid £16.95 an hour, and a relative is a driving instructor and charges £25 an hour in the Oxford region...expensive business!! :yes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my housemate is currently paying £20 per hour.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £26 for an hour and a half. This was last year.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I pay £15 an hour
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's around £25 an hour in London the last time i took lessons which was autumn last year.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ud guess the average from the places ive been to be £22
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £18 with the bloke across the road.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I had lessons last year... was £18.00 an hour... but that's because I had an offer; they would have been £20.00 without it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thanks everyone this is really helpful :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £42 for 2 hours.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It was £22 per hour for me, and I reckon that altogether I had close to 100 hours tuition. I would say it cost me around £2000 altogether. Not cheap, but neither is driving a car, after all.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I pay £22 it isn't cheap I could have found cheaper but I really wanted to have a female instructor and this company are just women.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I pay £20 for 50 mins.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I paid £21 p.h around Chelmsford area
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £26 per hour here in Oxford
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    piecesofme wrote: »
    I pay £22 it isn't cheap I could have found cheaper but I really wanted to have a female instructor and this company are just women.

    sexism in the workplace for ya :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think it was about £16-18 a hour depending on which instuctor I was using at the time, but this was 2003/4/5 though.

    ETA: That reminds me I havent driven for nearly three years.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Do you have to have a certian number of lessons or just keep going until you feel fine?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Simba T Lion wrote: »
    Do you have to have a certian number of lessons or just keep going until you feel fine?

    Have as many as it takes, though I think they're talking about making you do 100! I think most people pass before or not long after 40ish lessons.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    £22.50 an hour with BSM in 2005-2006, but they made you book 2 hours in a go each time so it was £45 a time, twice a week. They're crap - I failed twice and it is clearly THEIR fault and not mine ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ballerina wrote: »
    Have as many as it takes, though I think they're talking about making you do 100! I think most people pass before or not long after 40ish lessons.

    Really? I havent had any lessons yet and I was hoping to take my test in the summer.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ballerina wrote: »
    Have as many as it takes, though I think they're talking about making you do 100! I think most people pass before or not long after 40ish lessons.

    Oh wow! That'll get insanely expensive!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think it was 100 hours, rather than 100 lessons.

    Still expensive for people who can't get people to help them out with lessons. Personally though it's against the law my ex used to give me little lessons and I learnt far more than from a driving instructor who takes everything so fucking slowly I could have died of boredom. I think there is an art to dragging it out whilst still not teaching anything...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Simba T Lion wrote: »
    Oh wow! That'll get insanely expensive!

    Yeah they upped the price of the theory test last year and now the actual cost of the test is going up too
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Was paying 20 quid an hour, then obviously 30 for 90mins and 40 for two hours.

    That was for a female private instructor though I'm on the lookout for a nice, young, fit bloke who's teaching. Might give me the motivation to start learning again :razz:
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