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ONYX DRIVING

BD13

Driving lessons in Queensbury, Thornton, Denholme

BD13 covers Queensbury, Thornton, Denholme and Cullingworth. Some of the steepest and most exposed roads in the district — if you can hold a hill start in Queensbury on a wet morning, the Halifax test routes hold no surprises.

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Instructors available in BD13

Fahim Nazir — Onyx Driving instructor
Principal Instructor

Fahim Nazir

Black Renault Clio · Manual

Grade A Since December 2016

Fahim has taught learner drivers across Bradford since December 2016 — nearly a decade of test routes, hill starts, and helping nervous learners turn into confident drivers. He holds the DVSA's top Grade A instructor rating, a tier reached by a small fraction of UK ADIs. He teaches in a dual-controlled black Renault Clio, switching between English, Urdu, Punjabi and Mirpuri as the lesson needs — sometimes mid-roundabout, when a learner panics in one language and recovers in another. Patient, methodical, and honest about what each pupil needs to work on, not what they want to hear. Just real route knowledge, the right kind of repetition, and being properly prepared on test day. If you're testing at Heaton, Thornbury or Halifax, Fahim has driven those routes hundreds of times. He'll show you where the observation faults get logged, which hills catch out tired learners, and exactly what the examiner is watching for at every junction. That's the whole point of Onyx.

EnglishUrduPunjabiMirpuri
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Your test centre: Halifax

Pupils in BD13 typically test at the Halifax Driving Test Centre (HX1 1XZ). The current pass rate at this centre is 45%.

Halifax test routes include Skircoat, King Cross and the steep hills around the centre — strong clutch control essential. Halifax is closer than people realise for Bradford-based pupils, though at 45.0% its pass rate is the lowest of the three centres we teach for, and more than eleven points below Heaton.

Full Halifax test centre guide →︎

Popular destinations we cover

  • ✓︎ Queensbury
  • ✓︎ Thornton Viaduct
  • ✓︎ Denholme