Reliable Private Driving Instructor?

[Mgk123]

If y’all are interested in 3A CDC, PM me for contact.

No pickups thou, because uncle believes it’s a waste of time. Unless u take his last slot for the day or the slot before lunch or something along this line, he will drop u at the MRT station.

As long as you display traits of a willing learner, ask questions, he will definitely answer you. Just don’t expect him to be very nice and not fierce if you do stupid things.

He teaches u to pass hahaha!
And he teaches the school teachers last time so he knows all the points to look out for~
I’m about 8 lessons in and going for circuit practice already. Had 1 parking lesson and I can park better than school students while at the circuit lol.

Definitely recommend 9.5/10
0.5 is because I have to pay haha!

Can pm me the contact. Thank you!

 

[bitsoffish]

hi all, need a Class 3 instructor at BBDC, any recommendations please?

thanks!

 

[wtsmyiphone]

Oh god .. just had a 1st lesson with this Mr Tan Cheng Bock and was a pretty bad one. Cant ask questions and get screamed at 90% of the time. anyone has any good 3A instructor that can speak english and easy to communicate at CDC?

 

[rampage333]

Oh god .. just had a 1st lesson with this Mr Tan Cheng Bock and was a pretty bad one. Cant ask questions and get screamed at 90% of the time. anyone has any good 3A instructor that can speak english and easy to communicate at CDC?

I'm looking for 3a pdi as well... preferably at sk or punggol

 

[ahdy93]

Hello! Any recommendation for bbdc 3A pdi?
I have a really bad one and decided not to continue with him. So looking for a change thanks! Can pm me

 

[messidona]

Oh god .. just had a 1st lesson with this Mr Tan Cheng Bock and was a pretty bad one. Cant ask questions and get screamed at 90% of the time. anyone has any good 3A instructor that can speak english and easy to communicate at CDC?

he kena fixed by pap until have to teach driving at 83 yo. So Cham. Cannot be president so scold you lor

 

[jtjt00]

Looking for reliable driving instructor in Pasir Ris area.
Do PM, thanks.

 

[stwh09]

Hi guys, anyone with Class 3 PDI recommendations at BBDC area? Looking for weekday night lessons. Please let me know if you do, thank you so much!

 

[sc00bydoo]

Hi, anyone has recommendations for English speaking Class 3 instructor at CDC? Thank you!

 

[boopee39]

Hi I am also looking for english speaking and patient driving instructor...can recommend? for CDC

 

[boopee39]

For every new learner's sake, please don't ever engage sgdrivinginstructor!!! I sh*t you not, it's one of the worst driving centre you'll ever get to experience.


I engaged their service and got assigned to Mr Steven Ong Choon Tee, SKA 6178 X, Black Honda. I was hoping that he'll be a great instructor but hell no! You can search for his reviews and see how many negative comments he gets. (hope I did my research beforehand) He is very unhygienic and the passenger seats at the back of his car is very very very dirty with alot of rubbish.


On my first lesson, he only bother to mumble rather than teaching. Since it's my first time driving a car, I'll definitely make some mistakes along the way and he'll scold me as if it's my 20th lesson. He even hit my hands a couple of times and gave me negative remarks instead of encouraging me. I truly believe that that's not how you're supposed to teach someone on their first day. I kept on looking at the time on the dashboard, desperately waiting for the lesson to end.
That's how frustrated I am.



So feeling frustrated, I decided to message the agent from sgdrivinginstructor and asked for a change of instructor but they won't bother to reply. I'll have to keep on spamming them and then they will reply but unwillingly. So i go back and forth on whatsapp with the agent. They said that they don't have any instructor at the moment. So i told them that I'll wait and asked them to keep me updated. Fast forward 2 months later, i decided to message them and ask for an update but no reply. Messaged and called them every single day since 7 February 2023 but still no reply up till today (26 April 2023). So please don't waste your money and effort in engaging their service. When asking for the payment, they will message you in an instant but when you are asking for a solution, the won't even bother to reply you.


Don't be deceived by the motto and reviews on their website. Please do more research before engaging their service. (Although you no longer need to, as this post already exposes them)

did you manage to find a new instructor or still stuck with them?

 

[boopee39]

Posting review for Mr Frankie Yue.

3A, Toyota Axio
Pickup at Ubi CDC (Can arrange for Tai Seng / Ubi MRT pick up)

Chose him mainly because of the review I saw while trawling through the many pages in this thread, and that he also has quite a high pass rate / student numbers as well.

Can confirm that he is indeed a top notch instructor. Took approximately ~10 lessons from him (did have some prior driving lessons with school) and passed TP on the first try some time back.

He is patient, and will point out mistakes every single time you make them. Gives very good tips for driving in circuit and on the road, can fully recommend him. Speaks good English, but does not engage much in small talk. I'm by nature not a chatty person, so this suited me really well. Does not scold you / chide you even if you don't do well, but instead he will remind or nag you.

He is professional as well, and is always there on time. Does not take frequent toilet breaks while driving as well. Even if he does need to answer nature's call, he'll do it quickly.

Only downside is that he appears to have a lot of students, and therefore scheduling can be a bit difficult especially for working adults. (Was running 1 lesson at week for some time).

Feel free to PM me should you want his contact, can 100% recommend him.

can you send me his contact at jentan37@gmail.com

 

[sgarxen]

Hi guys, anyone with Class 3 PDI recommendations at BBDC area? Looking for weekday night lessons. Please let me know if you do, thank you so much!

Looking for a class 3 PDI too! mind dming me any recos?

 

[Raven Danish]

Hi?. Anyone had lessons with PDI David Ng class 3 manual at SSDC before?

 

[Raven Danish]

I learned with Mr Anthony Tan at SSDC Class 3 in September 2019 right before **. Passed in March 2020 before lockdown. A little background, I have 3A, but I needed Class 3 as I wanted to drive caravan and manual cars overseas for roadtrips. So I took "refresher" from Mr Tan. Took 8 lessons with him (roughly 5 lessons drive outside 3 inside circuit). During the lessons he just ask me drive and he will take the chance to correct my bad habits (never check back mirror, never turn head clearly) from my driving experience and tell me don't do such 'mistakes' in test. Circuit teaching also very swee, really teach properly and I had trouble with the biting point and slope but he slowly guide. His favourite phrase "pass already you want to drive with your old habits I leave it to you, but first you must pass the test using my tips"

Mr Anthony Tan (last time drive honda jazz, nice and small can park easily, now he change car not sure). One of the best driving instructors around. Speaks good english, grandfather vibes. Not sure whether can speak mandarin but I think so la haha. Don't scold or shout, just nag abit and will tell you like "eh eh do this kind wrong ah.... don't do this in test". So I just laugh and say sorry. Sometimes joke with you because don't want you to feel pressured.

Downside is, sometimes he end the previous lesson late. (maybe he too kind to previous student keep giving free extension). But doesn't make you 'pay' for it. So if you scheduled to start at 1:00pm, will usually 1:10pm then start and end 2:10pm or 2:40pm depending on duration. Someitimes I end like 5 to 10 mins late also but he not calculative. But means the behind all snowball. Imagine if your lesson is at 6:00pm hahaha jialat. Maybe 6:20pm or 6:30pm then start. So make sure you got flexibility with time, if not you probably be annoyed with the situation. He is also super popular with foreign workers converting their license to drive (I guess because he speak good english). So might have trouble booking him. Really must book in advance and don't last minute cancel.

Can use Paynow to pay for lessons/test - not those very strict say must use cash. $40 per hour, $80 enrolment fee. He even helps you to book your stuff (circuit and TP test) on SSDC website just pass him your SSDC login and pw lol. Really quite hard to find such helpful instructors. He really got heart to help you pass. Expected him to milk me for more lessons (which i'm ok to pay for his help) and $$$ but 7 lessons later, he let me do TP test alr.

2nd attempt then pass TP because first TP test, light was amber and idk drive or stop. I stop because don't want to beat red light (imm fail), but then tester say i e-brake for nothing (walao) and front wheel on pedestrian line, then fail me lol.

I don't usually post here but I think good instructors are hard to come by nowadays. A lot of fr*kn bad eggs.
Let me know if anyone needs his contact. Mr Anthony Tan SSDC Class 3. Spent a total of $1.1k inclusive of 2 TP test ($400+ each time incl. of warm up).

If I remember correctly, he has a friend Mr David Phuan that teaches at SSDC Class 3A. But this one not sure whether kind or not never learned under him haha.

Can share his contact?

 

[Raven Danish]

Hi, do u have his contact as my wife would like to learn.

Have you gotten the contact?

 

[jonatan1312]

Did u manage to find? Please share!

Hi, did you manage to get a private driving instructor?
If yes, do you mind to share his contact number?
I'm looking one for refresh lessons.
Thank you.

 

[rampage333]

I'm looking for a good 3a pdi cdc / northeast area contact. Pm me thanks!

 

[Truongkimson]

seems very hard to find PDI for Class 3 manual


Just pass my TP test at CDC UBI.

Recommending my class 3 PDI(manual only): Tan Bock Sum. didnt see his name mentioned at all previously.

Meet up usually at Bedok MRT or directly at UBI CDC

He seems to have high first time pass rate as well( small sampling though)


Pros based on my experience:
- professional, no toilet break, no personal errand, always on time and never had last minute cancellation
- I didnt have problem securing timeslot for lesson
- patient, no scolding.
- His tips for various circuit condition works, e.g. the marker for parking , and so on.

Cons:
- No personalised tracking on what’s been taught. if you dont have lesson for a while, he might lose track.

Hi, can you pm me his contact number pls

 

[hellofriend]

Posting review for Mr Frankie Yue.

3A, Toyota Axio
Pickup at Ubi CDC (Can arrange for Tai Seng / Ubi MRT pick up)

Chose him mainly because of the review I saw while trawling through the many pages in this thread, and that he also has quite a high pass rate / student numbers as well.

Can confirm that he is indeed a top notch instructor. Took approximately ~10 lessons from him (did have some prior driving lessons with school) and passed TP on the first try some time back.

He is patient, and will point out mistakes every single time you make them. Gives very good tips for driving in circuit and on the road, can fully recommend him. Speaks good English, but does not engage much in small talk. I'm by nature not a chatty person, so this suited me really well. Does not scold you / chide you even if you don't do well, but instead he will remind or nag you.

He is professional as well, and is always there on time. Does not take frequent toilet breaks while driving as well. Even if he does need to answer nature's call, he'll do it quickly.

Only downside is that he appears to have a lot of students, and therefore scheduling can be a bit difficult especially for working adults. (Was running 1 lesson at week for some time).

Feel free to PM me should you want his contact, can 100% recommend him.

Hi, do you have his contact please?