I failed my test last week, it upset me a lot but what bothers me most is that right before i got to the part where i failed (only one serious fault, no minors or anything else) the examiner told me to go on a different road rather than the one the satnav was taking me on because the road was too narrow for my car (I was driving in a VW T-cross with a width of a 1.76m, not particularly wide at all). This was before we passed the road so he wouldn’t have noted any atypical obstructions.
The road i was supposed to go down was narrow but it was a quiet side road and instead i was taken through what was basically part of a town center with pedestrians everywhere that didn’t have much more room. These two roads merged about 4 meters before a T-junction where i was supposed to take a right turn but i had forgotten it was a one way road so i was in the left lane, no other cars were around on the road i was turning into, no one could turn into this one way road, no other cars were beside or behind me, i didn’t create any hazard, but the examiner decided it was a major fault, giving me a fail.
EDIT: I’m not out here to argue with the examiners decision to fail me over my incorrect positioning, it was a genuine mistake, me and other second opinions don’t agree with it being a major but at the end of the day that’s irrelevant.
I don’t know for sure how things would’ve gone if I had taken the original route, and I can’t say whether the examiner was seeking out ways to fail me but I think it was very unfair how i was taken down a hard road for an illegitimate reason which affected my judgement leading me to a fault. The only issue is that i would’ve ended up on that junction anyways so that might make the appeal be rejected, i just want some second opinions to see if it’s worth making an appeal at all.
EDIT 2: I’m not appealing against the positioning being reason to my fail, I’m concerned about the reroute throwing me off when there was no good reason for the route to change at all, you are very welcome to say it won’t hold up, I’m not saying it will and I’m well aware this won’t make me pass. But I don’t need people telling me a ‘fail is a fail’, I’m well aware.
