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It is different for everyone. The only lessons the law fixes are the twelve special lessons: five cross-country, four on the motorway, three at night.

How many practice lessons come before those depends on your progress — and above all on how regularly you drive. Someone who keeps two appointments a week usually needs fewer lessons than someone who gets behind the wheel once every three weeks.

After every lesson you get honest feedback, so you know where you stand. We enter you for the test when you are ready — we do not sell you lessons you do not need.

The total is made up of the basic fee, your driving lessons, learning material, the TÜV test fees and the official costs for the licence application, the eyesight test and first aid.

The only genuinely variable item is the driving lessons, because their number depends on you. Everything else is settled from the start. Every position is listed separately on our prices page, including the amounts that go to the TÜV and the authority rather than to us.

There are no hidden fees, and paying in instalments is possible. The eyesight test and the first-aid course are not done here — you take those at an eyesight test centre and a course provider.

Then we enter you again: you can resit the theory test after two weeks, and the practical one after two weeks as well.

So it is no disaster — it happens more often than people think. We look at what went wrong together and practise exactly those points, instead of simply carrying on as before.

On a retake the TÜV fee and our presentation fee are payable again; a new basic fee is not. What each of them is made up of is set out on our prices page.

At the ordinary pace, reckon on two to four months from signing up to the practical test.

That hangs on three things: how often you come to theory, how quickly you book driving lessons and how long the authority takes over your application. We file the application at the Straßenverkehrsamt on the day you sign up — how long the office then takes is the office's call.

With the intensive course it can be as little as two weeks, but you need that time in one block. In high summer a second limit comes in: the three night drives need darkness, and in Düsseldorf in June that arrives late.

Yes, at any time and without giving a reason.

Our instructors are Ares and Yusuf. Each has his own style, and not every pairing works — that is no criticism of either side, it is normal. Your training record carries over seamlessly, so nothing is lost.

Just tell the office. You do not need a conversation with your previous instructor first, and usually your next lesson is already the first one with the new one.

Yes — that is exactly what our set-up is built for.

Theory runs Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 18:30 to 20:00, and on Saturdays at 9:30 and 11:00. You choose which sessions fit; there is no fixed course you get assigned to.

Driving lessons are booked flexibly, including mornings and at the weekend. Most of our learners are working or at school — with us that is the normal case, not the exception.

Class B is the manual licence, B78 the automatic-only licence, B197 the automatic test with manual entitlement — and BF17 is not a gearbox question at all, but accompanied driving from the age of 17.

In detail: with class B you are tested in a manual and may drive both afterwards. With B78 you are tested in an automatic, and key number 78 restricts you to one. With B197 you are tested in an automatic too, plus ten lessons in a manual and an internal test drive — after which you may drive both.

BF17 combines with all three, because it only governs the age at which you start. Which version suits you is something we settle before you sign up.

Yes, without any trouble and without giving a reason.

The theory and practical lessons you have already done are recognised in full, so you do not start again. The paperwork is ours to sort out: the notice to your old school, the training record and the re-registration at the Straßenverkehrsamt.

Instead of a full new registration you pay only the change fee — the amount is on the prices page. Bring your training record to the first appointment and your plan is in place the same day.

Both. We have three VW Golfs: one with a manual gearbox, two with an automatic.

If you are torn between manual and automatic, B197 is usually the answer. Training and test run in an automatic, with ten manual lessons and a test drive on top — and afterwards you may drive both, with no restriction on your licence.

Our B197 page sets out how that runs. Anyone who knows for certain they will never change gear is well served by the pure automatic training under B78.

To start you need an eyesight test, a first-aid course of nine units, a biometric passport photo and valid ID.

The eyesight test and first aid are not done here but at an eyesight test centre and a course provider, and both have to be finished before the application goes in. We will tell you where that is quick to arrange in Düsseldorf.

For BF17 the consent of your parents or guardians is added, and every accompanying driver has to provide proof. Everything else we fill in together when you sign up.

Yes — what is involved depends on the country that issued it.

For EU and EEA licences the exchange is straightforward. For countries outside the EU you normally have to take a practical test, and depending on the country the theory test too, and you will need a certified translation of your licence.

The six-month deadline runs from the day you register your address, not from the day you arrived. Bring the original licence to the first appointment and everything else follows from there.

Our team speaks German, Kurdish, Turkish and English. The theory classes are held in German.

The theory exam itself you sit at the TÜV in one of twelve languages — among them English, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Italian and Spanish. Lessons and exam are two separate questions, and only the first one is in German.

Whatever is left open in class we go through afterwards in your language. That is what the four languages in the house are for: questions about the exam can be talked through in the language you think in.

Oststraße 122, 40210 Düsseldorf — right in the city centre.

The U-Bahn stops at Oststraße directly outside the door, on lines U71, U72, U73 and U83. From the main station it is six minutes on foot.

So you do not need a car to reach us — handy while you are not allowed to drive one yet. If you do come by car, there is a multi-storey car park next door.