Driving Lessons in Hayes

Lessons are £40 an hour across UB3, UB4 and UB5, 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.

Yeading, under two miles north, and its current DVSA figures are at the top of this page: 52.8%, the strongest of any centre serving Middlesex. Southall is east and eight points lower, Uxbridge is north west and half a point behind.

On the published figures it is the best available to Middlesex learners, at 52.8% against a London average in the mid forties. Pass rates reflect the candidates as much as the roads, so treat it as a reason to prepare on the local routes rather than as a guarantee. Being your nearest centre is the bigger advantage.

Yes, 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 your UB postcode.

No. Rated Driving is an agent. The instructor who teaches you runs their own business and sets their own diary, and we match you on postcode, car type and what you asked for. Your payment is held until after each lesson before it reaches them. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and you can request a female instructor.

Hayes, Yeading, Hayes End, Botwell, Wood End, Harlington, Minet, Bulls Bridge, North Hyde and Townfield among others. Enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

They are useful rather than difficult. A humped single-file bridge with no marked priority forces you to read the other driver and decide, which is exactly the judgement the test is looking for. Instructors here introduce them early for that reason.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The residential streets around Townfield and Pinkwell are quiet and flat, well away from the Uxbridge Road and the bridges.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. The Uxbridge Road bus corridor and driving alongside lorries near the estates are the two commonest asks.

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. The M4 and the A40 are both close for the faster modules.

DVSA research puts it at 45 hours of professional lessons plus 22 hours of private practice. Living next to your test centre means your ordinary lessons happen on the test roads, which tends to reduce the hours spent on route familiarity at the end. Your instructor will give you an honest count after assessing you.

They can, before your test if you want. Learners are allowed on motorways in a dual-control car with a fully qualified instructor, and the M4 is a few minutes south, so it fits into a normal lesson.

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. Yeading's rate makes it sought after well beyond Hayes, so its dates go quickly. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.

An intensive course puts the hours into consecutive days rather than weeks. With Yeading under two miles away, being ready when a date appears is the whole game. It is a separate booking at its own price, and you book the test yourself on GOV.UK.