Reviewed 20 October 2026
I needed a few lessons to help upgrade my auto license to a manual license (I bought a manual car). Barry was great, he was patient and clearly taught me what the testers would be looking for. If you want manual car lessons in the Caboolture area, I would recommend Barry :).
Reviewed 14 August 2026
Barry is the best instructor, thank you guys so much
Reviewed 9 August 2026
Barry is the best instructor, thank you guys so much
Reviewed 25 March 2026
Barry was a very good driving instructor he is patient and calm and taught me to be confident while driving.
Thanks a lot Barry.
Reviewed 16 March 2026
Barry was very helpful. He explained things carefully. He was very good at communicating with me about my lessons and giving good feedback for my practice test. Thanks Barry
Reviewed 11 February 2026
Barry is a patient driving instructor who explains things clearly and simply. He stays calm, builds confidence, and makes learning to drive feel easy and stress-free.
Reviewed 5 February 2026
Barry was so patient and taught my daughter how to drive her manual car. He is a lovely person and we can’t thank him enough
Reviewed 4 January 2026
Barry is a wonderful patient, cheerful, unflappable, highly competent, driving instructor and I would recommend Barry to anyone at all who wanted to learn to drive with one of the best.
Thank you, Barry.
Reviewed 21 November 2025
A big thankyou to Barry.
Sacha had a 1.5 hour lesson with Barry.
It was perfect - Barry was flexible, patient, thorough, and a great communicator.
Reviewed 30 October 2025
Barry is amazing, lovely humble man, fair, tough and funny.
Reviewed 5 June 2025
Hi Barry,
Toby is slowly getting more relaxed.
Thank you so much for your patience and consideration with Toby.
Best wishes,
Nicole
Reviewed 28 May 2025
Over the last couple of months I have had lessons with Barry and honestly he is fantastic, very calm and gentle - yes, I passed my driver's. I highly recommend him as an instructor. Thanks to the Coastwide team for all their hardwork, keep it up.
Reviewed 9 May 2025
Barry has been amazing with Jade. Jade is so very happy with Barry. He has been amazing with his teaching skills and kindness. Barry has helped Jade immensely to improve her driving skills
Reviewed 30 April 2025
Via Google
I had both manual driving instructors Michale and Barry, they were fantastic with their teaching skills, calm and collective where I felt ease in learning to drive manually. I was able to pass the practical test at first go. Highly recommend both instructors.
Reviewed 23 April 2025
Our sincerest gratitude to Barry for his calm and patient teaching. His guidance and reassurance saw my daughter get her manual licence on the first try. Highest of recommendations for Barry.
Reviewed 18 March 2025
Cannot thank Barry enough!
He has taught all four of our children, all passing their tests on their first attempt. Barry is very thorough, and is excellent at gauging your child's confidence level, helping to calm the nervous ones and ground the overconfident to be safe, responsible drivers (we had both).
If you are looking for a driving instructor for your child, we highly recommend you use Barry.
All the best & thanks so much Barry!!!
Reviewed 27 February 2025
James cannot speak highly enough of Barry. Just loves the lessons and is learning a lot.
Reviewed 20 February 2025
Barry is the absolute best, he taught me Auto, I really truly believe I passed because of him, even after I got my licence I always had Barry's voice in my head calmly saying slow down and what does that sign say and what's the speed limit here, he's really good at getting U to pay attention to all Ur surroundings, I had gone thru a few different driving schools before I got Barry, and I got my licence the day after my dad passed away, I don't think I could have got thru it without him and he's kind words.
Thankyou Barry!
Reviewed 1 November 2024
Thanks Barry you are the best and a very patient understanding instructor. Stuart Eley
Reviewed 24 September 2024
Barry is awesome! Very patient and a great teacher. The guys in the office were always so helpful!!
Reviewed 11 September 2024
Very friendly and constructive feedback.
Reviewed 10 May 2024
Highly recommend Barry as a Manual driving instructor for young & older learners. He came highly recommended , everyone person I asked about manual lessons they all said " Barry, hands down" Bloody Barry is a legend" Barry, Barry, Barry.
Reviewed 2 April 2024
Barry has been fantastic with teaching my son Braidyn to drive. Braidyn finds him calm and constructive in his approach. Braidyn has praised Barry alot and has felt that he has adequately prepared him to successful pass his driving test.
Reviewed 20 February 2024
Cannot sing Barry’s praises any higher - I have recommended him to so many of our friends and family. He is so patient, a gentleman, and just so good at what he does. Our girl has high anxiety and he knew just how to teach her best, and has got her through her L’s and onto her P’s. He now gets a little 4 month break til we throw the next one at him! An absolute asset you your company!
Reviewed 13 December 2023
Barry is absolutely amazing as a instructor he has been so patient with my son, teaching him the right way.
You are a great person
Reviewed 2 September 2023
Barry was a great instructor, he would never yell, whenevr you made a mistake he would gove clear advice on how you could go about it for next time and he was just a great instructor
Reviewed 14 July 2023
My 2 daughters get manual lessons from Barry. I was worried about using a male driver but my girls say he is the best, When I mention Barry's name to anyone, they always have great reviews on him.
Reviewed 9 June 2023
Excellent driving school. It was easy to book lessons, and the packages offered were reasonably priced. Everyone we dealt with (mainly Barry, who was teaching my child) was lovely and professional. Highly recommend Coastwide Driving School!
Reviewed 18 July 2022
Barry taught me pretty much everything i needed in manual. he was always very calm and helped me when i was always stressed out. Thank you barry for teaching me to be a good driver and making me feel comfortable when driving manual
Reviewed 16 July 2022
I can highly recommend Barry as he is patient, explains everything with road rules to parking the car and much more.
I went for a driving test on Friday 15/7 had a lesson prior and got tips from Barry on how to approach the driving test. I was so excited when I passed and now I’m on my red P’s. Thank you Barry.
Ethan M
Reviewed 5 May 2022
Barry was so nice and very helpful in terms of helping me in learning what I needed to do in terms of driving. he was very precise on what I needed to work on and I wouldn’t have passed without him .Would 100% recommend him
Reviewed 18 April 2022
Amazing instructor, all my lesson are definitely going to be with him!!Highly recommend!!
Reviewed 5 February 2022
Incredible teacher would recommend to anyone
Reviewed 31 January 2022
Thanks for all your help Barry towards getting my licence. Peter
Reviewed 14 September 2021
5 stars! Barry is the best couldn’t have done it without him!
Reviewed 30 August 2021
Highly recommend coast wide driving. I recently upgraded my license and passed first go. Barry was the most excellent driving instructor, very professional and patient. Thank you again Barry
Reviewed 22 July 2021
Thanks Barry, great teacher and great customer service!
Reviewed 15 July 2021
Barry is a wanderful teacher for Thomas to learn to drive and is a patient and happy and a really nice man
Reviewed 13 July 2021
Barry was an amazing instructor that was very supportive throughout the whole experience, and with his thorough driving lessons and feedback i was able to pass first go.
Reviewed 6 July 2021
Barry was awesome! i appreciate the Professionalism and thoroughness in my lessons:)
Reviewed 29 June 2021
Sam was very happy with Barry as his instructor.
Mum (Jenny) was impressed with the great customer service whenever she spoke to them on the phone.
Reviewed 24 June 2021
Very professional, and informative lesson.
Reviewed 27 May 2021
Barry is excellent!
Reviewed 24 March 2021
Highly recommended
Reviewed 24 March 2021
Barry is a great teacher, and all the staff have been extremely kind and helpful at Coastwide Driving School.
Reviewed 14 February 2021
Cant recommend Coastwide Driving School enough! From lessons with Barry to test day with Steve, the journey couldn’t have been easier. Thank you both so much for ensuring that I passed my manual test first go! Both these blokes couldn’t do enough for us and my younger brother will be starting with them next.
Reviewed 4 February 2021
Great instructing by Barry :)
Reviewed 10 December 2020
You are the best driving school and keep up the great work
Reviewed 23 October 2020
Barry was great cool calm and informative, thankyou
Reviewed 13 October 2020
Barry was excellent. Very patient and helped Isaac to feel confident in his driving
Reviewed 23 September 2020
Barrys is a very good teacher and he taught me a lot i thank him :)
Reviewed 17 September 2020
I personally had Barry Spencer. Great instructor very thorough and very reassuring. Easy to speak to and ask questions. All around great experience and great result! Can’t thank Barry enough
Reviewed 31 August 2020
First of all I would like to thank the team and Barry for getting my goal done Barry is a patient instructor and the team is also customer service friendly .
Reviewed 31 August 2020
Amazing Driving instructors who will go to any length to help a learner out. Really appreciate the time and effort that has gone into getting me to this point. Thanks
Reviewed 28 August 2020
Barry Spencer is an excellent teacher, very patient and kind. Hoping he is still doing the teaching when my 13 year old goes for his licence.
Reviewed 28 July 2020
Barry Spencer has been an amazing instructor,
Very calm and patient, knowledgeable and a great teacher. Cannot recommend Barry highly enough.
Reviewed 26 September 2019
Barry was excellent , very patient , punctual and friendly would highly recommend Barry and Coastwide
Reviewed 13 August 2019
Thanks Coastwide for such an awesome instructor “Barry Spencer”. Very friendly & experienced mate. Highly recommended for anyone looking to clear their manual in just one shot :)
Reviewed 3 May 2019
Barry was extremely helpful. He made my first time drive manual a breeze and took a lot of stress off.
Reviewed 24 April 2019
Barry's an awesome teacher. Will be making bookings for more lessons very soon.
Thanks
Reviewed 16 August 2019
Thank you for making my daughter feel comfortable and having patience with her