How many tries did it take you to get your license?

[Jerram]

Well that other thread sparked me to poll this question.

It have been done before, but in any case there are a heap of new people on here.

Poll away!

[mr corsa]

licence for what ? truck boat car bobcat forklift liquor plane helicopter ferry gun saftey business ?

[glider]

first time car and truck

[xplosv57]

First time car, as for the bike.......didn't go so well!!

[bender]

first time lost 1/2 a mark :cornut: for going around a corner and getting the wrong gear ie instead of 3rd to 2nd i went 3rd to 4th stupid ford gearbox :D

[chrissn89]

First time L's and first time P's :) Going on my Opens at the end of October :)

[hazrd]

1st time car + fork

[auzvectra]

1st time car and boat ;).
not that boat is hard :p, but i did top the class :D.

who the hell took 5 plus times??? joking surely?

[xplosv57]

who the hell took 5 plus times??? joking surely?

LOL who took more than 5 go's?? Fess up.

I promise we won't laugh........

Ok we probably will though!!!

[bender]

LOL who took more than 5 go's?? Fess up.

I promise we won't laugh........

Ok we probably will though!!!

but we will leave plenty of room at the next cruise :p

[tomtom]

[lebo accent]
0 times. I was born with a license. A license to hold these guns *flexes biceps*
[/lebo accent]

haha :) Nah, once for me for car.

[Calibrated]

got my licence 1st time in SA. which i must say, is a far more intense test. no wonder there are so many shocking drivers in qld.

here, it was 3rd time lucky.. both failures, were by the same testing officer, for the most complete and utter bullshit reasons. apparantly doing 50 in a 60 zone was a critical error, and overtaking a parked truck (he said i was closer than 1.5m, i said i wasnt, but he is god). another critical error.

ITT: Money Making.

[daiflu]

1st time at the ripe old age of 16. Had my mates tail-gating me (they thought it would be funny) and made a few mistakes. That's NZ licence testing for ya. You just about had to crash to fail!

[Shay]

2... well 2.5

Did my test in our 96' 3.5 Manual Pajero :cornut:
First time i sped, so i booked again, went in and they said na we wont take you tyres are too bald, and we were like WHAT! we just had the car serviced and they said there was a couple of 1000 ks left in them...

so booked again, for a week later, did it and passed tho im pretty sure i had to do shit all parking and U turns (1 forward park, 1 u turn in an intersection (a massive intersection, lol )), just cos i was driving the tank :D

[Shay]

1st time car and boat ;).
not that boat is hard :p, but i did top the class :D.

who the hell took 5 plus times??? joking surely?

i got my boat first time...
took 1 hr, TOTAL, lol

security liscense, first time...

[AH08]

i got my boat first time...
took 1 hr, TOTAL, lol

security liscense, first time...

Car license........... 1st time the 1st time and 1st time the 2nd time.
Truck license ......... " "
M/cycle license......" "
Boat license .........." "
Wholly crap, I just realized how many licenses I've got.....
Fishing license
Pistol license
Longarms license
Business license
and a heap more, I must be keeping every gov't bureaucrat employed. :confused:

[poita]

first time on L's, first time on P's, aced teh test. even did a reverse park in a car with no power steering.

first time for forklift and first time for stock picker

[sooty]

first time l's and p's.
In my p's when i did reverse point to point i just put the clutch in and didn't grab reverse as we were on a slight hill so i was just able to roll backwards. Of course when i went to take off, the car seemed really slow, because it turns out i'd just taken off in third :p only found out at the end of the test. Examiner said he would have taken points off if i'd stalled, but because i didn't, it showed good clutch control and he was actually quite impressed :cornut:

[xplosv57]

Ahh forgot to mention i went for my license twice, went for auto when i was 18, then had to get my manual license for work insurance purposes, first time i drove an AH was on the manual test, was spankers back in '05!!!

Lucky i drove the car to the test, cos i turned on the wipers instead of indicating, was so used to the G being the wrong way!!

[glider]

Ahh forgot to mention i went for my license twice, went for auto when i was 18, then had to get my manual license for work insurance purposes, first time i drove an AH was on the manual test, was spankers back in '05!!!

Lucky i drove the car to the test, cos i turned on the wipers instead of indicating, was so used to the G being the wrong way!!


sorry to go OT but the H has indicators on the outside? :yikes:

[sooty]

sorry to go OT but the H has indicators on the outside? :yikes:correct:cornut:

[HappySlapper82]

What license?

[AfterBurner]

First time here too L's & P's, back in the day when it was only 2x tests :D with auto upgrade to black/silvers (NSW)...

& Riders
& Fork...

[ChrisMaz]

Took me two go's purely because the douche instructed decided that the car coming down the road was going to fast and put his foot on the brake so I wouldn't pull out.

But I can understand 5 times... Kind of.

Mate of mine wrote off two cars in three tests. He's now a commodore driver that thinks he's the best driver in the world yet weekly roots something on his car. :cool:

[Shay]

i think they are stricter over here cos we only have one driving test, think most other states have at least 2

[sadavidsriturbo]

ok Ls at 16 twice
Ps 16 1/2 first time (lost them several times)
Ps again in 2008 stupid new rule if on Ps and lose them have to do the test again
bike Ls and R date 1st time
boat twice
fork lift first time
gun state wont let me have one

[CNBLU]

i got my pen license first time:cornut:

[Wraith]

LOL who took more than 5 go's?? Fess up.

I promise we won't laugh........

Ok we probably will though!!!

LOL I'm curious on who they are as well...

At least they kept trying and got it in the end :)

[Neeko]

i didnt get my pen license first go :(
got motorbike, car and gun license first go though.

[jastra]

first time practical and theory yet to find out HPT :)

[cholly]

third try for me

[SubZero]

i did 2 licence test;first one in overseas and second one here in aus and got them first time:cool: