Hi May, thanks for the info.
Hi Clare
Understand your stress level. Firstly, u need to tell yourself to keep calm when driving and give yourself plenty of time to reach from point A to point B. I'm a relatively new driver too. Have passed test for over 10 yrs but driving is only more than a year ago. When I first started, I only go around my town (ie CCK). When our new car is only a few days old, I had to visit alone a place where parking is done in a very tight space, I took more than 15 mins to park and I was already late ... but just tell yourself, never mind, all things have to wait. Until today, I still have not much confidence going up certain multi-storey carparks and I'd rather take public transport if the driving prove to be too challenging for me. For eg, the visit to Tabb's place, I could have driven but I chose the public transport (coz I know I'll have problem concentrating with a fussy baby) and baby and I enjoyed the bus-rides a lot!
New car as I know need to go slow to warm up the engine, so we were practically driving on the leftmost lane for 2 weeks and under 80 km/h (imagine doing this on an expressway. Pickups were overtaking me!). For light scratches, you can polish it off. You got to learn how to relax and take little accidents as part and parcel of driving... or else you'll not dare to take the wheels. You have to give your hubby's confidence ... my hubby gave me mine or else I'll probably not drive & car is his LIFE ... fyi, he'll still clean the car at night if it rains or he feels the car's been running thru dirty roads and he doesn't let the maid wash the car (though some said it's not legal); he'd rather do it himself. 2 frens/relatives who recently got new cars also got their cars scratched. 1 of them have driven for a while but this is his first car and it's also a few days old ... just remember to take it slowly and have confidence; and take things positively ... it'll settle in.
.ky.
Hi Clare
Understand your stress level. Firstly, u need to tell yourself to keep calm when driving and give yourself plenty of time to reach from point A to point B. I'm a relatively new driver too. Have passed test for over 10 yrs but driving is only more than a year ago. When I first started, I only go around my town (ie CCK). When our new car is only a few days old, I had to visit alone a place where parking is done in a very tight space, I took more than 15 mins to park and I was already late ... but just tell yourself, never mind, all things have to wait. Until today, I still have not much confidence going up certain multi-storey carparks and I'd rather take public transport if the driving prove to be too challenging for me. For eg, the visit to Tabb's place, I could have driven but I chose the public transport (coz I know I'll have problem concentrating with a fussy baby) and baby and I enjoyed the bus-rides a lot!
New car as I know need to go slow to warm up the engine, so we were practically driving on the leftmost lane for 2 weeks and under 80 km/h (imagine doing this on an expressway. Pickups were overtaking me!). For light scratches, you can polish it off. You got to learn how to relax and take little accidents as part and parcel of driving... or else you'll not dare to take the wheels. You have to give your hubby's confidence ... my hubby gave me mine or else I'll probably not drive & car is his LIFE ... fyi, he'll still clean the car at night if it rains or he feels the car's been running thru dirty roads and he doesn't let the maid wash the car (though some said it's not legal); he'd rather do it himself. 2 frens/relatives who recently got new cars also got their cars scratched. 1 of them have driven for a while but this is his first car and it's also a few days old ... just remember to take it slowly and have confidence; and take things positively ... it'll settle in.
.ky.
