My Son The Driving Instructor

My son has had a number of jobs, including welding, packing, working with an electrician, but now, to my satisfaction, he has settled as a driving instructor and is now running his own driving school. Although it is a great job with good pay per hour, the work is not regular enough to be comfortable.

The compare driving schools website 'ChoosyLearner.com' offers pupil referrals for a fee, so if anyone out there has used them I would be grateful if you could drop me a line and let me know. Looks good, but, 'is it actually good?' is my question! Are they really passing pupils to independent driving instructors like Mike or are they passing them on to the highest bidding National driving school?

Driving lessons are not something that I personally like the idea of. I know that everyone needs them, but I am not sure that I would be a good one to teach them. I am sure that teaching is a satisfying job, but the safety aspect is the bit that concerns me a bit more - driving along at 70mph with a learner driver for the first time? No thanks!

My son would be looking for driving instructors in Harrow or Watford as I assume different areas would have different stories?

Paying For Paying For Car Parts

No that title was not a mis-print. This is about paying for the priveledge of paying for a car part. Sounds strange? Read on.

A friend recently drew my attention to an online company in which you send them a text message (I believe that the message costs about 5 quid) and tell them what car part you are looking for from a salvage yard or scrap yard. That information then goes to a number of local (maybe even national) scrap dealers who then contact you with details of what you are looking for and then the price that they are offering it for.

I think that one of the examples of a testimony on the site was someone who got what they were looking for for about 9 quid. So, my first thought was 'that's a rip-off! It adds too big of a portion to the cost!'.

My final conclusion? Pretty good idea. Especially if the thing that you are looking for is an expensive product such as an engine or a door or an alternator, etc. That 5 quid that I originally thought was simply too expensive could save you loads if you find the right product from a garage owner who knows that he is competing with price. Not sure if they charge the garage owner too - but either way, it sounds like a reasonably good site and idea. Could be something big in the future.