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The latest round of changes to the Irish Driving Test were implemented on, Feb. 14th 2005, as part of a chain of E.U.Directives.

Test Candidates are now required to have a basic level of mechanical knowledge, which any good professional School of Motoring would have been teaching from day one in any event.

The car of today is a very different beast compared with its grandparents and any driver, young or old, should have a range of skills that enable them to identify problems and take the necessary remedial action.

The Driving Examiner will select three questions at random from a list of technical aspects which will include opening the bonnet. While it is not exactly space technology, the ability to identify this range of equipment and to describe how individual checks would be performed, does require some thought and a little practise. Some of the equipment will have accompanying warning lights on the instrument panel some does not, so some of the requirements will already be known (hopefully!)

Candidates will be asked to explain how they would perform checks on three out of the following list:

Engine Oil: Coolant: Steering: Brakes: Horn: Indicators: Lights: Tyres: Reflectors: Windscreen washer.

The under the Bonnet checks relate to:-Power Steering Fluid; Brake Fluid; Engine Oil; Engine Coolant; and Windscreen washer Fluid. In a newer car all of these pieces of equipment are easily identifiable by coloured tops to the various reservoirs, which have an easily recognisable icon painted or etched into them. The location of these five essential items does vary a little from model to model so if you have changed your car in the lead up to the Driving Test then spend a few minutes double checking.

In the event of very bad weather (rarely a feature of the Irish climate) it is unlikely that the Examiner will ask for the bonnet to be opened but since he or she has already spent time outside the car, checking brake lights and indicators and paperwork, it's not impossible. If he or she is a fisherman or a boating enthusiast then a few drops of rain will be water off a duck's back. Just keep an eye on the weather and ensure that your heater or demist controls are pre-set .Two persons in the car during rainy weather will mist up the windows extremely quickly and the candidate needs to be equally deft with the controls.

Questions on brakes will cover both the footbrake and handbrake, and on steering will deal with cars that both have power steering and those that don't .Of course there are still a few older cars out there without P.A.S. It's worth adding to the list , one more item of importance to the Driver--that of the Alternator and it's drive belt .The fact that all the above need to be demonstrated on the Driving Test should not detract from the need to perform these checks on a regular weekly basis. It is precisely because of the importance of all these pieces of equipment and their monitoring, that it was deemed essential to include them in the scope of the Driving Test.

Show Me -Tell Me........Below is an example of the question and answer technique to one of the Test Questions .The full questions and answers will be provided in another follow up article and on the Astral School of Motoring website shortly.

Checking the Oil Level.

"Show me the Oil filler cap and tell me how you would check for the correct level of Oil in the Engine"...Examiner

"Here is the oil filler cap and to check the oil level I would first withdraw the Oil Dip Stick, wipe it clean and then replace it momentarily. I would then withdraw the dip stick again and ensure that the level of oil showing was between the minimum and maximum marks on the base of the dip stick, preferably nearer the maximum mark. In the event of the oil level being lower than the half way mark I would top up to the maximum level"...Candidate

This latter sentence has been put in for good measure since it's not much good knowing how you would check the oil if you didn't then follow through on the result!

Since all equipment in your car needs to be in tip top shape and regularly inspected if we are to stay safe and avoid accidents, look on the acquisition of these technical skills as two sides of the same coin ....

Safety and Economy - if you look after your equipment you will be both safe and economic. In a number of future articles we will explore the advantages of correct techniques and the impact they will have on your safety AND your bank balance.

Robin Piggott has spent a lifetime on four wheels (mostly ) and is attempting to pass on the skills that he learnt the hard way to a new generation of Drivers.His Web site will provide further information on learning to Drive in Ireland.

http://www.astralmotoring.ie
http://astralmotoring.blogspot.com

Motorcycling Hazards in Eastern Europe

It sounded simple enough: emulate our screen heroes – Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman – by riding motorbikes to Eastern Europe in aid of a children’s charity. But we were nervous grandparents, not fit youngsters on sponsored bikes with a back-up crew.

Our ride from Norfolk, England to Bucharest and beyond, across twelve countries and sixteen border crossings, took us through storm, flood and tempest and almost proved a challenge too far…

We started in scorchingly hot conditions – it was the summer that thousands of Parisians died of heatstroke – and when the weather finally broke as we headed south through Romania it did so with a vengeance, producing a tempest of biblical proportions. Frankly, the roads and the driving were so bad here, they didn’t need the storm of the century to make them insanely dangerous. These were just some of the hazards:

1) Tyre grooves: On Romania’s tired, beaten-up old roads, the heavy lorries lean towards the verge due to the camber of the road and their overloaded chassis. The result is a tyre groove near the centreline of the road and a much deeper one near the road edge, where the combination of tyre-trench and displaced tarmac sometimes creates a ridge over half a metre high.

2) Potholes: These are often a metre or more across and up to half a metre deep. Fail to spot and dodge these in time and you can puncture tyres, break wheels, damage suspension and snap motorbike frames and luggage carriers, not to mention being pitched off your bike.

3) Slumps: These are not potholes but can be just as deadly. These are where the substructure of the road – maybe an underlying drain or culvert – has collapsed, leaving an almost invisible hollow where the road has dropped. Hit these at anything above jogging speed and the suspension fires you out of the saddle, shortening your spine in the process.

4) Horse poo: A novel hazard that you don’t see much on British roads, but with lots of horses and carts in Romania, there are frequent piles of steaming horse droppings, made even more interesting to ride over when heavy rain turns it into a slimy slurry.

5) Slick tar: Not only road repairs, but whole sections of road, especially in bends, are polished glass-smooth by vehicle tyres and lack of road maintenance. In the wet these are treacherously slippery.

6) Diesel: Romanian trucks have leaky tanks and faulty filler caps. But with their own oil wells in the south of the country, this is of no concern to the truckers who spread slippery diesel oil over the roads. In the dry this is dodgy, but in the wet the combination of oil lying over a film of water is deadly, especially in bends.

7) Road signs: Those that haven’t fallen over, been driven into or rusted away have usually been shot to pieces. For some reason, everyone with a gun seems to find road signs irresistible for target practice, the satisfying ‘clang’ of a wounded road sign must make up for the absence of hunted-out wildlife, perhaps?

Dogs: But you can’t spend too long looking out for road signs or you’ll hit a dog. Romania has packs of feral dogs running along the verge beside you, barking maniacally and threatening to throw themselves under your wheels any second.

9) Drivers: Despite all of the above, by far the greatest hazard on Romanian roads were the other road users.

For more details of this ridiculous journey – hairy, scary and often hilarious – why not read the book of our travels. It is titled ‘Beyond Bucharest: Motorcycle Adventure Travel’ by Bob Goddard and contains numerous maps plus colour and black & white photos.

If you’ve enjoyed this article, head over to http://www.timbuktu-publishing.co.uk/ to read a full FREE chapter and get my take on lederhosen, dwyle-flonking and the secrets to a successful restaurant!

A short video taster is available at the publisher’s website:  http://www.timbuktu-publishing.co.uk/   where you can also read reviews, see photos, learn about other books by this former motorcycle journalist and arrange to have a book sent to you post-free in the UK, or with subsidised airmail postage to worldwide destinations.

About the Author

Bob Goddard is a book author living in rural Norfolk, England, who firmly believes that travel should broaden the mind as well as the waistline.
His books include: ‘Beyond Bucharest: Motorcycle Adventure Travel’ and ‘Land Of The Long Wild Road: New Zealand Travel’ and can be found at the publisher’s website: www.timbuktu-publishing.co.uk

should the radiator fluid be filled to the base of the filler neck of a radiator cap at all times?

For a 95 Honda Civic

Yes. and fill the overflow plastic bottle up to the cold mark when cold.
Do Not check the rad level hot.

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