VMD Driving School

Someone at this address got a hold of my Best Buy credit card charged $ 1000 merchandise to be delivered at this address this place is a scam this isn’t the first time they’ve been accused of this

I have used this place a while back to get my new tags with no problem. But for some reason this place went to shit i gave them a simple transfer for new owner on a car i bought but she keeps telling me dmv system is down bullshit. Dmv system isn’t down for 5 days. And asking for a refund is impossible bullshit place. Never coming here again

I have so many things to say about this place, but I’m just gonna stick to one thing. I went through three days of hell with my driving instructor Khoi. My experience of driving during those 2 hours every day was nothing short of verbal abuse. He yelled, shook his head, and insulted me to the point where I was close to tears. At one point, Khoi exclaimed out loud that my driving is horrendous. Mind you, I’m only 17 and haven’t even drove a single day in my entire life before the lessons. Before coming here, I was pretty confidence that I would drive fine, but after enduring those three days, I am nothing more than a nervous wreck. My first driving experience was not supposed to be like this. I was supposed to make mistakes and learn from them, but instead I was more focused on him than the road. It’s gonna take a while to get my driving confidence back. Don’t ever come here unless you want to pay money to be verbally abuse. Now that I’ve done the lessons with him, I’m too nervous to drive because I am constantly reminded of all the little mistakes I made and getting yelled at for them. Thanks to my instructor, I now have driving phobia.

I came here to get my car registration as fast I could cause I’ve got a buyer and we find out the sticker from the dmv is missing.
The lady help me to get it right on the same day after spending 5 min to apply and pay, I came few hours later and sticker was ready.
High recommended if you find mind to pay extra $ 25 for this service.
Thank you

I wish I could put a NEGATITVE 5 stars to this business. I am not sure why they still survive until now. DON’T EVER USE THIS SCHOOL!!! There are plenty of better and trustworthy driving schools in San Jose you can use.
Back in March 2015, I hired one of the instructors from this school, his name is Nghiem, he is an old man. I have high respect for old people because most of them seem to be trustworthy and dedication. So, I had high hope for my daughter… But I was so wrong!!!
The first day we met, he told me after 6 hours under his teaching, my daughter should be able to drive freeway and ready for driving test. It was not true at all! My daughter learned nothing from him.
In May, my daughter lost her completion certificate of 6-​hour driving lesson, we called this guy asked if we could get a copy. He said I must pay him $ 30 for the copy because the school had to pay DMV to re-​certify the paper for the students. He instructed me that I should not contact school for this but I should call him if I decide to pay for the copy. I did not believe what he said so I contacted other driving schools in SJ asking if someone must pay fee to get a copy of the completion certificate, the answers I received was «No, it is free and it is easy for school to give out!». So the truth was that the old man, Nghiem, wanted to take advantage of the situation to collect another $ 30 from us. But he did not get it because I decided to hire another school for my daughter. After retaking the driving lesson with the new school, my daughter passed her driving test in July.
My intention to post this review is to tell you that this school offers lower fee for a reason «they are cheap in quality and service». If you use them for your kids, you may end up paying double like I did for my daughter’s driving lesson.
I do wish VMD business owner reads this and would love to hear his/​her response!
What is up with the $ 30 fee for a copy of the completion certificate? Do you really know your staff? What is the successful rate of your students?
I can’t believe such a business exist in San Jose.

This place is a fucking scam! Stay away if you don’t want to lose your money. They took 200 bucks from my mom twice for a car sticker and we’ve been asking for it and they keep blaming it on dmv. The workers are super rude and disrespectful

Please don’t go here. My 16 years old daughter came here for driving school. she was terrified. When she mistake the instructor asked her to apologize to him and yelled at her. He drove her and talking on the phone at the same time. He shouldn’t be a driving instructor. Bad influent:(disappointed:(bad school:(they should close it!

Guys I need help Can Someone help me give me the instructor On phone number because the receptionist is very rude and doesn’t want to give me the number when she said call the instructor directly when I need help.

This business is disrespectful, unprofessional, and rude! You just lost a potential client, you idiot.
Why is such a place even open for business? DON’T COME HERE! DO NOT RECOMMEND.
They do not care about their customers. I called their office TWICE today to ask a simple question about their services. Instead, a lady (with a heavy accent) answered my first phone call and I asked her one question. Her response was «I am busy! Call back 10 minutes!» and then I heard a click.
Confused as to what just happened. Was this a JOKE??! Did we get accidentally disconnected?
A minute later, I called back, thinking that we possibly must have gotten disconnected somehow in mid-​conversation. A different person answered my call and immediately put me on a 5-​minute hold while I was forced to randomly listen to their «baby got back» song while waiting. OH GOD WHY? Finally, the same woman, who answered my original first call (the one with the heavy accent), comes back on to tell me in an angry voice and practically yelling this time, «I told you… call back 10 minute! I’m busy! Busy!» She abruptly hung up again. Judging from the other Unilocal reviews here, this must have been the lady manager who runs the place. Pathetic!
If they don’t practice professional (or even nice/​polite) telephone manners, then who knows how they really treat their customers in-​person! They need a reality slap in the face ASAP. Thanks!

I do NOT recommend this place to anyone. Why? Unprofessional. 0 stars if I could.
The driver instructor was suppose to pick up my aunt at 9:00AM to take her to the DMV for the driving test that is suppose to be at 10:45AM. 9:30AM ticks by and still nobody. 9:37AM, still nobody. Made several phone calls and the dude doesn’t pick up. Finally, after calling 5 – 6 times, he picks up. He had forgotten about the DMV test and said he got home late the previous night. Long story short, she had to be rescheduled.
03÷26÷15 — After they collect the money, they could care less about you. ‘Til this day, she hasn’t been rescheduled. Save your money, and go elsewhere.

I really hated my driving experience with this. So, my mom looked in those Vietnamese magazines & she decided to just go with it since she said it was cheap. We paid for it and the appointments were already picked for me so I was set to go.
I was REALLY skeptical about this place due to the fact that it was own by Vietnamese people & everyone knows that Asian drivers are the worst.
The night before my first appointment, the driver instructor texted my mom saying that he was on vacation and I had to call him to reschedule two appointments. At that moment, I knew it was a red flag & I wanted my mom to get her money back. So the next day, I texted him and his reply was getting on my nerves,
Me: «Hello. It’s Phuong. You were supposed to take me for driving lessons today but I heard you were out of town? Can we reschedule it this weekend?»
Driver Instructor: «Happy summer time, I am ready to go USH I will call or call me for app.
Me: «I can call later tonight. Is that okay?
Waited all day for a reply. Never did. That night, I had to call him because I didn’t want more miscommunications. So, I called him if I could reschedule and he basically said, «Oh, I’m not ready yet.» OK, so first he cancels it last minute b/​c hes on vacation when he’s supposed to work and he told me to call him for another appointment. And by the way, he never did call me back. He didn’t let me know if he canceled all 3 of my appointments or just 2 (because the first two was back to back.) I texted him asking and no reply. Of course.
On my supposedly «the last day of my driving lessons», he texted me at 10:20AM to get ready and I was busy with something. I was trying to rush and get ready. And I’m like, «why is he texting me at 10:20. My appointment was at 10:00, yet I thought he canceled it.» So I had to push everything to the side & rush out. He didn’t text me back, neither did he show up on time either.
So an old ass man comes to my house and I figured it was him and he has already come to pick me up. I then see another student in the car. The annoying shit ever was that I wasn’t mentally prepared. I didn’t have my glasses so I was reckless and he made me drive the student home. Like, wtf? He basically rushed me to get out
So when I drove the student home, I proceeded to drive for a bit and he kept on telling me to get off the bicycle line WHICH I WASN’T ON. And he kept on braking when I was going «too fast». I was already going 20mph when it was 25mph. Oh yeah, on top of that, he told me to pull over and get out of the car. I had one more hour to go but he insisted to drive me home because he had another student waiting for him at 11:30. I was super pissed and while he was driving home, he hit a fucking curb. ARE YOU KIDDING? OMG I WAS ABOUT TO KILL HIM. WHY IS HE EVEN CERTIFIED?
It was like this for the next 2 times II had him. Lol, never again.
So don’t go here if you actually give a shit about the safety of you as a driver like me. You could go there if you just want to get your 6 hours over with. It’s cheap!

Oh how I wish Unilocal would be evil enough to allow someone to give 0 stars. I obviously don’t know much about driving — seeing that I was stupid enough to come here in the first place. The lady was just trying to get as much money out of us as fast as she could. She promised me that my «driving instructor» spoke fluent English, which obviously he DID NOT. The dude constantly shows up late, YELLS at me when I don’t understand him, and on top of all that HE TOOK OFF AND NEVER CAME BACK. Yes — he told me he was going to be busy and said he was going to find me another instructor (which also never showed up!!!) and when my dad called the school to complain, they kept giving us total BULLSH*T excuses. Never again will I trust another «driving school.» I’m better off learning by myself.

First of the all, the owner of VMD is only interested in making money for herself and even rip off her instructors.
Second, the driver instructor, I believe there’s only one because many of my friends (roughly around 10) had him, is very… attached to the old traditional culture. His name is Khoi if I recall correctly. He always tells you to make a turn at the last minute, yell at you when you do something wrong (when I say yell I mean like how Asian parents angrily yell at their children raising their voice tone), goes off topic (he bragged about his daughters going to UC’s), and is a total pervert (he checks out women as they walk by on the sidewalk).
And if you unfortunately fail your driving test, he will insult you and go on about how could’ve you failed.
Just because VMD has an actual store and building that does not mean it’s good. I guarantee you could find much better driving instructors in the «Bao Thang Mo» who are self-​owned businesses.

BAD: The instructor was late for just a couple minutes no biggie and he is pretty hard to understand unless you can speak vietnamese. The worst news is that you drive a freakin yellow volks wagon punch buggie. On the first day the instructor kept on pressing the brake but he eased off the next day. He might make you stop at a fast food restaurant just to get food for himself. He’s basically wasting your time and money.
GOOD: The price was cheap but i rather sign up for a different driving school. I finished my course in less than 5 days but i didnt learn much in those days.

If you are in a rush to finish your class to apply for your driving permit, or want to get the road practice hours out of the way quickly. Go here.
But keep in mind, you may suffer for the rest of your life as a «bad driver»
The price is right, and it is entirely up to you if you want to be a «good driver» in the future, because you probably will not learn it here.

horrible… seriously, don’t. i couldn’t understand anything my instructor was saying, and everytime i made a mistake he got mad. you’re SUPPOSED to make mistakes… that’s how you learn. urgh. i went for one lesson and never called him back.

Pros: cheaper than other schools at the time
Cons: instructor didn’t care at all about his student, only to get the class over with
That pretty much said it all. I don’t need to go back but I feel unethical recommending this place to others, unless they’re really low on money; and if that, with a warning.