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Driving Lessons in Ealing

Ealing has two test centres inside the borough: Southall at 44.8% and Greenford (Horsenden Lane) at 41.4%. Yeading, 3.4 miles west, publishes 52.8%, eight points above Southall. Tell us your postcode and we match you with an independent DVSA-licensed instructor, and we hold your payment until after the lesson.

W & UB POSTCODES COVERED

  • DVSA-licensed
  • DBS-checked
  • Paid after your lesson
Learner celebrating passing her driving test with Rated Driving, holding an L plate
£38/hr
Manual · London rates
£38/hr
Auto · same price
1600+
Instructors across the UK
L01 / London rates

What lessons
actually cost

Real rates for W and UB postcodes. Manual and automatic cost exactly the same in London, which is not true everywhere.

2 hours£76· £38.00/hrSTARTER
10 hours£370· £37.00/hrSave £10
MOST FLEXIBLE
20 hours£726· £36.30/hrSave £34
GREAT VALUE
30 hours£1083· £36.10/hrSave £57
BIGGER SAVING
40 hours£1436· £35.90/hrSave £84
BEST VALUE
L02 / One page, every option

Choose how
you learn

However you want to learn, it is one booking, matched to independent DVSA-licensed instructors covering Ealing.

02.1 / MANUAL

Manual lessons

The Uxbridge Road runs the width of the borough as a slow, bus-heavy high street, which is where clutch control becomes automatic rather than deliberate. A manual licence lets you drive both types of car.

Book manual lessons
02.2 / AUTOMATIC

Automatic driving lessons in Ealing

Automatic costs the same as manual here. On the Uxbridge Road and the A40 the difficulty is timing and lane choice, not gear changes, so an automatic puts the hour into the part that is hard.

Book automatic lessons
02.3 / YOUR CHOICE

Driving instructors in Ealing

Female driving instructor in Ealing

Say what suits you: a female driving instructor in Ealing, extra patience, or an instructor who teaches Yeading as well as Southall. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked before they take learners.

Tell us your preference
02.4 / IN A HURRY

Intensive course

With three centres in reach there is usually a date somewhere, and an intensive course is how you are ready to take it. Test-date swaps between learners are free, and you never share your name.

See intensive courses
L03 / Test centre intelligence

Southall test centre
pass rate

Southall is inside the borough, and so is Greenford (Horsenden Lane) at 41.4%. The figures at the top of this page are Southall's. Yeading, 3.4 miles west, publishes eight points higher.

44.8%

DVSA 2025/26 · 8,543 tests · Southall, in borough · but not the strongest option in reach

46.7% manual
41.7% automatic
41.4%
Greenford (Horsenden Lane)
Also in the borough, on Horsenden Lane North, at 41.4%. Lower than Southall.
in borough
52.8%
Yeading (London)
3.4 miles west in Hillingdon, and eight points above Southall on the current figures.
3.4 mi W
50.4%
Isleworth (Fleming Way)
South in Hounslow, also well above Southall, on busier but faster roads.
4.6 mi S

Source: DVSA driving test statistics, 2025/26 reporting period. Figures refresh when DVSA publishes; every value on this page is pinned to that release.

L04 / Free test-date swap

Take a test date
you would actually pick.

With three centres in reach and an eight-point spread between them, learners here often hold a date at the wrong one. Another learner may be glad to take yours and hand you theirs.

Nothing about your booking changes unless you both say yes. DVSA makes the swap on the call, not us.

The date you were given

Tue 16 Feb

Southall · 11:41

A date you would rather have

Thu 3 Dec

Southall · 09:07

10weeks
earlier
  1. 1Add your testYour centre, date and time, and the dates that would suit you better. About two minutes.
  2. 2We find the matchChecked against the rules DVSA publishes, so you only see swaps that can actually happen.
  3. 3One of you calls DVSAOnly then is a booking reference released, to whoever makes the call. Either of you can still say no.
What has to be true for a swap
  • You both need a car practical already booked
  • At least 10 full working days before the earlier test Monday to Saturday count as working days. Sundays and public holidays do not.
  • You both need one of your two DVSA changes left Nobody outside DVSA can check how many you have left, so we ask.
  • Same test type and fee band A weekday test can only swap with another weekday test.
  • The other test is at your centre or close to it Your centre, one of the 3 centres nearest to it, or the centre you first booked at.
Add my test date

Free, no payment details, and neither learner ever sees the other's name. It is new, so the more learners who list a date, the faster it finds you one.

L05 / Coverage without clutter

Areas we cover
around Ealing

M4A4127A4089A3005EalingEaling CommonWest EalingSouth EalingNorthfieldsCastle BarActonHanwellPark RoyalEast Acton44.8%Yeading (London) 52.8%Isleworth (Fleming Way) 50.4%Ealing M4A4127A4089EalingEaling CommonWest EalingSouth EalingNorthfieldsCastle BarActonHanwellPark RoyalEast Acton44.8%Isleworth (Fleming Way) 50.4%Ealing

pass rates DVSA 2025/26

L06 / Local knowledge

Learning to drive
in Ealing

The Uxbridge Road crawls, the A40 does not, and your instructor teaches them apart.

Driving instructor and learner beside a dual-control car on a residential street
Roads your instructor will use

The Uxbridge Road and the A40

The Uxbridge Road crosses the whole borough as a congested bus-heavy high street, and the A40 runs above it as a fast dual carriageway with short slips. Instructors teach them separately, because they demand opposite things, and only combine them once you are reliable on each.

When to book

Southall on a market day

The Broadway through Southall is one of the busiest shopping streets in west London and it tightens considerably at weekends. Instructors who teach the borough will steer early lessons away from it and bring you back once you can handle the pedestrian traffic.

Getting to the test

An eight-point decision

Southall and Greenford (Horsenden Lane) are both inside the borough, at 44.8% and 41.4%. Yeading, 3.4 miles west, publishes 52.8%. That gap is worth an explicit conversation with your instructor rather than booking the first centre that comes up.

Worth knowing

Heathrow traffic reaches further than you think

The southern and western edges of the borough carry airport traffic at hours that do not follow the usual commuter pattern, including very early mornings. It is worth knowing when you are picking a regular weekly slot.

L07 / Learner outcomes

What learners said

Learner driver holding a pass certificate after a practical driving test
“Best driving instructor! Passed first time, and I wouldn’t of been able to if it wasn’t for him.”
L
Lorna
Verified learner review

“Thank you very much, Edd, for assisting me in successfully passing my first driving test. I highly recommend your help.”

Edward · Verified learner review

“I did refresher lessons with Amjad. He is an excellent instructor - he targeted the areas I needed to work on and he really helped me to feel comfortable and confident behind the wheel again. Thank you so much Amjad!!”

Tilda · Verified learner review

Rated Driving scores 4.7 out of 5 from 245 reviews on Trustpilot.

L08 / Asked in these exact words

Ealing lesson questions

Straight answers on prices, test centres and booking in Ealing.

Lessons are £38 an hour across W5, W13 and UB6, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual. Ten hours is £370 and twenty is £726, which brings it to £36.30 an hour. The figures come from the booking system, so the price here is the price you book.

Southall, inside the borough, is the centre at the top of this page. Greenford (Horsenden Lane) is also in the borough, on Horsenden Lane North, at 41.4% on 7,222 tests. Yeading is 3.4 miles west at 52.8%, and Isleworth is south in Hounslow. Both publish a higher rate than Southall.

It is worth asking your instructor, because the gap is unusually wide: Yeading publishes 52.8% against Southall's 44.8%, eight points, and this page puts Yeading 3.4 miles west. 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. Southall, in the borough, passed 41.7% of 3,176 automatic tests in the DVSA 2025/26 figures, against 46.7% for manual. 3 instructor pages offer automatic lessons and say they mostly cover Ealing. They are Patrick Burrows, Sayed Mustafa and Amjad Syed. 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 for driving lessons in Southall, driving lessons in Greenford and driving lessons in Northolt. 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.

Rated Driving is not a driving school. We match you with independent, DVSA-licensed driving instructors in Ealing. 5 instructor pages say they mostly cover Ealing. Instructors covering Ealing work across W5, W13 and UB6 and the surrounding codes. 14 of the borough's 16 postcode districts are shared with Hounslow, Hillingdon, Brent or Hammersmith and Fulham, so the postcode you enter decides who covers you. The test centre on this page is Southall test centre (Southall, in borough · but not the strongest option in reach). The Uxbridge Road crawls, the A40 does not, and your instructor teaches them apart. Every instructor is DBS-checked before they take a learner, and we hold your payment until after the lesson. Instructors who state they cover Ealing include Hamed Arpanahi, Patrick Burrows, Charles Duah, Sayed Mustafa and Amjad Syed.

You can ask for a female driving instructor in Ealing when you book. The other answer on this page names instructors who state they cover Ealing. None of those profiles lists female driving instructor, so no name is added here. The price on this page is £38 an hour, and automatic lessons are the same price. The same booking covers Acton, Hanwell, West Ealing, Park Royal and East Acton. The Uxbridge Road crosses the whole borough as a congested bus-heavy high street, and the A40 runs above it as a fast dual carriageway with short slips. Instructors teach them separately, because they demand opposite things, and only combine them once you are reliable on each. Lessons for that match use Southall test centre (Southall, in borough · but not the strongest option in reach). If nobody suitable has space, we tell you rather than quietly matching you with someone else.

L09 / Nearby towns

Driving lessons in nearby towns

The same postcode matching, prices and payment protection run in every town we cover. If your lessons start outside Ealing, pick your town.

Written by Kevin Tuffney, co-founder and COO of Rated Driving. Pass rates taken from the DVSA 2025/26 release. Last reviewed 8 October 2026.

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Put your postcode in and we will match you with an instructor who teaches Ealing every week and can tell you honestly which of the three local centres suits your driving. We hold your payment until after each lesson, then pass it on to your instructor.

  • DVSA-licensed
  • DBS-checked
  • Paid after your lesson