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This section of driving advice, hints and tips has been provided to help our site visitors to develop their driving skills to a more advanced level. To access each of the pages, click on the subject heading of your choice.

     

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Third Party Perception
Does the way you drive on the road affect public opinion? What does your car say about you?

   

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Tyres on Your vehicle
Tyres are so vitally important for your safety, but people are so ignorant about them.

 

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Car Stability and Control
Do your current vehicle management skills help you get the best preformace from your car?

   

link to advanced driving tips and advice page covering the purpose and design of car driver and passenger safety belts

 

Purpose of Seatbelts
Even with all the public information available there are people who will not to wear a seat belt.

 

Link to 4 pages of advanced driving hints and tips cvering how car brakes work and how to maintain them

 

Stopping Power – Brakes (4– Part Series)
Will bigger and more powerful brakes make the car stop in a shorter distance?

   

Link to page explaiing the purpose and function fo car driver and passenger airbags

 

Airbags – In–Car Crash Protection
A good companion to the above, but they certainly are no soft pillow.

 

Link to two pages that deal with advanced driving techniques and covers steering techniques

 

Steering Techniques (2–Part Series)
It steering is the driving control that has the most effect, why is it so misused?

   

link to two advanced driving hints and tips pages that explains about the function and purpose of transmission differentials

 

Transmission Differentials (2–Part Series)
A powerful part of your transmission that can make life difficult for you.

 

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Cornering Forces
What forces are there pulling and pushing on your car wnen cornering?

   

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System of Car Control
The strategy that forms the backbone of advanced road driving

 

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Bend Assessment
You see a bend ahead, but how tight will it be? How can you tell?

   

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Best Use of Gears (3–Part Series)
Getting the best performance from your engine with the right choice of gear.

 

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Road Position For Bends
Article explaining the optimum line for driving bends on the road for more efficient cornering.

   

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Effective Overtaking (4–Part Series)
No one is taught to overtake on a single carriageway road. Here’s how to do it.

 

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Skidding – Skid Prevention & Control (3–Parts)
When you skid it is because you have asked more of your car than it can deliver.

           

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Aquaplaning – Wet Weather Driving
A situation that will scare the life out of you, but the answer is not to panic.

           
     
                 
 

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Middle Lane Shareholders
When drivers hog an overtaking lane on a motorway, how do you deal with them?

   

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Beware of Left Hand Drive Trucks
Why so many cars become wrapped around the front of foriegn trucks on motorways.

 

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Police Procedures – Motorway Rolling Block
What the motorwat police patrols will use a rolling block tactic and whan you need to do.

   

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What to do at a Motorway Road Collision
If you wre involved in a motorway road collision, would you know what to do to stay safe?

 

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Being Stopped by Police on a Motorway
If a motorway police patrol car signalled to you to stop, would you kow how to do it safely?

   

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What to do – Motorway Car Breakdown
Car Breakdown on a Motorway – What are the rules and how do you deal with it?

 
         

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Abnormal Loads Under Escort
How are abnormal loads escorted and what does this mean to you as a car driver?

 
     
                 

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