Roadworthy car for driving test in NSW.
Are you going for the driving test soon? Do you know the RMS test center doesn’t provide the vehicle for the driving test? Lots of learners don’t know the fact that RMS doesn't provide cars for driving. Therefore, either you must take your own car or hire a driving instructor car for your driving test. Very few learners have their own car or spare family car to use for tests. If you are taking your own car or your family car there are lots of things you need to make sure about the quality and reliability, they called it roadworthy. Whether your vehicle is safe and good enough to drive on the road.
Also, you need to remember, when you are going for the test, you must be accomplished by an Australian full license holder. If you fail the driving test, your international license will be terminated, and can’t drive without an Australian full license holder.
If you are taking your own car or your family car, you must know that the testing officer will check the following things before your test.
- The first thing they check is the registration of the car you are taking for the driving test. The vehicle’s registration shouldn’t be expired.
- Do not forget to check the airbag safety of your car, whether there is any recall from the manufacturer about the airbag of your car. You should check a few days before your test so that you have the opportunity to plan if there is any fault.
- All brake lights must work properly (remember most of the cars have 3 brake lights, for example, right, left, and middle brake lights)
- All the signal lights which include signal lights on left and right looking glasses or doors
- Check for crack or broken glasses which include a clean and crack-free windscreen.
- Check all tyres, whether it has enough threads 1.5mm. Tyres should not be worn too much.
- Check for any sharp edges from crash damages.
- Check for seat belts (functioning properly)
There are lots of things to remember if you are taking your car or your family/friend's car for the driving test and you could easily miss a few things, which is obvious thing. They will not do conduct the test nor refund the fees you have paid for the driving test If the vehicle is not roadworthy. Rather than taking the risk and stress yourself during the test, we would recommend learning to hire a car from a professional driving school who knows and maintain their vehicle to meet the standard of RMS. Therefore, It would be less stressful and hassle-free, if you use the driving instructor’s car for your driving test.
There are a lot of advantages to using the driving instructor's car for test day. For safety, better peace of mind, and a smoother driving test experience, you should consider booking your driving instructor’s car.
We have various driving lesson packages as well as test packages to secure the use of a driving instructor’s car and warm-up lesson before your actual driving test so you can pass on first go with comfort and confidence.