Driving Lessons in Ealing

Lessons are £40 an hour across W5, W13 and UB6, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual. Ten hours is £389 and twenty is £764, which brings it to £38.20 an hour. The figures come from the booking system, so the price here is the price you book.

Southall, inside the borough, is the default and its current DVSA figures are at the top of this page. Yeading and Isleworth are both within a few miles and both publish notably higher rates.

It is worth asking your instructor, because the gap is unusually wide: Yeading publishes 52.8% against Southall's 44.8%, eight points on a four mile difference. Pass rates reflect the mix of candidates as well as the roads, so it is not a guarantee, but it is one of the clearest local differences in London.

Yes, and at the same price as manual. Say automatic when you book and we match you with an instructor whose car is automatic and who covers W5, W13 or UB6. On the Uxbridge Road, where you spend a lot of the hour waiting, it is a reasonable choice.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, not a school, so you are matched with an independent instructor rather than assigned one on a rota. We cover W5, W13, UB6 and the surrounding codes, hold your payment until after each lesson, then pass it on. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and you can ask for a female instructor when you book.

Ealing, Acton, Hanwell, Perivale, West Ealing, Ealing Common, Northfields, South Ealing, Park Royal and Norwood Green among others. Southall, Greenford and Northolt sit in the Middlesex UB area and have their own pages. 14 of the borough's 16 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The residential streets around Perivale and Castle Bar are quiet enough to spend the first hours on before you go near the Uxbridge Road.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. The A40 is the commonest ask, usually from people who hold a licence but have avoided fast dual carriageways since they passed.

Yes. Pass Plus is the DVSA's six-module course for new licence holders, covering motorway, dual carriageway, rural and night driving, and some insurers reduce premiums for it. Ealing suits it: the A40 and the M4 are both close, so the faster modules do not need a long drive.

They can, before your test if you want. Learners are allowed on motorways in a dual-control car with a fully qualified instructor. The M4 and the M40 are both reachable inside a normal lesson from most of the borough.

DVSA research puts it at 45 hours of professional lessons plus 22 hours of private practice, and learners who get that private practice are markedly more likely to pass first time. The Uxbridge Road and the A40 tend to need a few extra hours, because they ask for opposite skills. Your instructor will give you an honest count after assessing you.

It moves weekly, so check GOV.UK on the day you book. Two things stay true: tests can be booked up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official waiting list or cancellation list. It is worth checking Yeading and Isleworth at the same time rather than one at a time. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.