New Car Orientation Perth
Get Comfortable With Your New Car
Learn your new vehicle’s essential controls, features and functions with practical guidance designed to build confidence and safer everyday driving habits.
Get Comfortable and Confident With Your New Vehicle
Buying a new car is exciting, but modern vehicles can come with an overwhelming number of controls, settings, driver-assistance systems and technology features.
The DriveLab WA New Car Orientation service is designed to help you become familiar with your new vehicle in a relaxed, practical environment. Rather than trying to work everything out on your own, we’ll help you understand the features that matter most for everyday driving and then practise using them safely on the road.
This service is ideal for drivers who have recently purchased a new or unfamiliar vehicle, particularly when moving to a different size, transmission type or a vehicle with newer technology.
Get to Know Your New Car
Your orientation can include:
- Setting the correct seating and steering-wheel position
- Correctly adjusting mirrors
- Understanding dashboard displays and warning lights
- Locating and operating essential vehicle controls
- Headlights, indicators, wipers and climate controls
- Understanding the transmission and driving modes
- Electronic parking brake and Auto Hold functions, where fitted
- Reversing cameras and parking sensors
- Blind-spot monitoring systems
- Lane-departure and lane-keeping assistance
- Adaptive cruise control and other driver-assistance technology
- Understanding keyless entry and push-button starting
- Connecting and understanding commonly used infotainment features
- Adjusting important vehicle and safety settings
- Understanding the location of basic under-bonnet components
Practise Driving Your New Vehicle
Knowing where the controls are is only part of becoming comfortable with a new car.
We’ll also give you an opportunity to drive the vehicle and become familiar with its size, steering, braking, acceleration, visibility and turning characteristics.
Where appropriate, we can practise parking, reversing, manoeuvring in tighter spaces, changing lanes and general road driving so you can get a better feel for how your new vehicle responds.
Understanding Driver-Assistance Technology
Modern safety systems can be extremely useful, but drivers need to understand what they do — and importantly, what they don’t do.
We’ll help you become familiar with the driver-assistance features fitted to your vehicle while reinforcing that these systems support the driver rather than replace safe observation and decision-making.
Start Your New-Car Journey With Confidence
Whether you’ve upgraded to your first new car, moved from an older vehicle to something more technologically advanced, or simply don’t feel completely comfortable with your new vehicle yet, DriveLab WA can help make the transition easier.
The goal is simple: Understand your car, feel comfortable using it and drive away with greater confidence.