Before you drive equipment check — Arizona Permit Test

Before you drive equipment check on the Arizona permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

Arizona requires your brakes, speedometer, turn signals, windshield, horn, tires, seat belts, front side windows and emergency flashers to be in working order.

A car with a dead speedometer or broken flashers is not fit to drive, even if it starts and moves fine.

Brakes Speedometer Turn signals Windshield (intact) Horn Tires in good condition Seat belts Driver and front passenger side windows Emergency flashers

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.19

Before you start the car, adjust your seat, steering wheel, rear view mirror and outside mirrors.

Once you are rolling, reaching for a mirror takes your eyes and a hand off the road at the worst time.

Prior to starting your vehicle, adjust your seat, steering wheel, rear view and outside mirrors.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.19

Before putting the car in motion, check that your turn signals and brakes are working.

You do not want to learn your brakes are soft at the first stop sign, with a car close behind you.

Before putting the vehicle in motion, check your turn signals and brakes to ensure they are in working order.

Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.19

On the test

Which of these is on Arizona’s list of equipment that must be in working order?

The speedometer. A car with a dead speedometer or broken flashers is not fit to drive, even if it starts and moves fine. Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, p.19: “Brakes Speedometer Turn signals Windshield (intact) Horn Tires in good condition Seat belts Driver and front passenger side windows Emergency flashers”

How this works

Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.

You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.

Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.

What it costs

  • One payment, once — not a subscription. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel, for an exam you sit one time.
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  • Paying opens the rest of the cards, unlimited full-length practice tests, and retests built from exactly the questions you got wrong.
  • Every level up to Prepared — 3 tests passed in a row.
  • Do the work, fail the real exam, and we refund you.

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Arizona Driver License Manual and Customer Service Guide, published by the Arizona Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-28.