Before the drive
The vehicle check that happens before your road test starts
This one computes nothing, because there is no published figure to compute with. It is a list of the checks that apply wherever in Canada you are testing, and the ticks stay in your own browser.
Work through it
Why this list exists
An examiner walks around the vehicle before the drive, and what they are looking for is not whether the car is nice.
What they are looking for is whether the car is legal, whether it is safe for two people to sit in for half an hour, and whether the equipment the test grades you on actually works. A vehicle that fails that walk around does not get a shorter test, it gets no test, and in most cases you lose the appointment and the money that came with it.
The frustrating part is how ordinary the failures are. A bulb, a wiper blade, a belt that will not latch. Every one of them is a ten minute job the week before, and none of them is something you notice from the driver seat on the morning itself. So do the walk around before the examiner does.
What this list is, and what it is not
Your licensing authority has the final word
Every item above is a check that applies wherever in Canada you are testing, which is exactly why we kept the list to those. Each province and territory publishes its own vehicle requirements, and some add conditions of their own: a particular kind of vehicle, a rule about a rental or a borrowed car, a requirement about who owns it. The office you are booked with works from its own list, not ours, so read theirs as well.
We have left out anything we could not state for the whole country. Where a rule differs by province, saying nothing is more useful than saying something that turns out to be wrong at your office. If you are not sure whether the car you plan to use qualifies at all, the licensing office will tell you before the day, and that call costs nothing.
The ticks are stored in this browser and nowhere else. There is no account, nothing is sent to us, and clearing your browser data clears the list. That is not a limitation we are apologising for, it is how the whole site works.
Where to go next
The paperwork a driver carries
What has to be in the vehicle with you, why an examiner asks for it, and what happens when it is missing.
The Ontario G1 knowledge test
The test that comes before any road test, what Ontario publishes about it, and a free simulation of it.
Novice driver restrictions
Whether the drive to the test centre itself is one your current licence allows you to make.