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ONYX DRIVING

BD4

Driving lessons in Bierley, Holme Wood, Tong

BD4 covers Bierley, Holme Wood, Tong and Dudley Hill. Tong Street is a fast, busy arterial with a lot of lane changes, and the estates behind it are quiet enough to practise on first — a useful pairing in one postcode.

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Instructors available in BD4

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: Thornbury

Pupils in BD4 typically test at the Bradford (Thornbury) Driving Test Centre (BD3 7AY). The current pass rate at this centre is 47.8%.

Thornbury routes cover the Leeds Old Road corridor, Pollard Lane, and the residential roads around Thornbury Park. Multi-lane roundabouts on the A647 are the most-failed feature here.

Full Thornbury test centre guide →︎

Popular destinations we cover

  • ✓︎ Tong Street
  • ✓︎ Dudley Hill
  • ✓︎ Rooley Lane