Halfords fitting service

[Wideboy]

bit of research / just interested

[keithd]

for what? cars? fitting what? tyres? alarms?

little help here....

[Owenski]

They fit a headunit for me in the Pug a few years back. Nothing to complain about, it was an ebay purchase and they did it for free although I'd had to buy a pack of connectors, which is what promted the question about fitting in the first place.

[plowsie]

State of some of the birds in the one near me, I would.

[metalangel]

Depends on what it is. Given most of the employees in my local Halfraud's, no.

EDIT: Bought wiper blades from them, on the checkout it says 'if we don't offer to fit it, we will fit it... for free!'. However, the state of the employee on the checkout, plus the fact it's just wiper blades, convinced me it wasn't worth pursuing this. He'd probably manage to make my car explode or something.

[phi-dan]

not a chance - although I was sorely tempted to cough up the £1.50 to fit a T5 dash bulb. Take off all fairing panels, cowling, remove clocks, change 1 bulb, refit all the above for £1.50???

[The Guru]

Half of them couldn't even put a nut in a monkeys mouth.. never mind work on cars.

[454697819]

they have a HUUUUGE exemption list...

Anything which a monkey cant do, they wont either

[Jayneflakes]

As an ex Halfrauds staffer, I would advise that you are very careful asking them to work on your car.

At the store I worked at, young lads were asked to work on customer cars after the smallest amount of training, some knew less than I did and I was asked to change a car battery once after lad doing it badly messed it up and I was a push bike sales person.

In the eighteen months I worked for Bikehut, I saw the lads break two cars by fitting the battery the wrong war around, destroy a soft top on a BMW, cause the failure of a Mercedes automatic gear box by advising the wrong oil to be used and in my final week, they broke a little car by fusing the electrics. One of the lads has a fit success rate of 50%, the ones that did not go well burned out the head units due to incorrect fitting!

However, some of the more experienced staff can be OK, but will still bodge it if they can't fix it properly.

Be careful, especially if your car is expensive or has custom ICE work.

[G]

I used to work for Halfords whilst at University.

I would not let any of them in any of the 4 different outles I worked in touch a car.

They/we got little to no training and half the times things were extremely bodged.

Most of the time its 16 to 22 year old part time workers doing the works.

One of the lad in our shop scratched the wing of a 2 year old £90k range rover with the zip of his fleece when leaning across to fit a wiper blade.

Bulbs are the worse thing, the majority are actually pretty damn tricky unless you are doing it every single day, which most arn't.

Just NO.

[dirtydog]

I wouldn't let any of them near my car/van even if my life depended on it!

And I can fit wiper blades and bulbs etc myself, if you can't do it yourself or are just too lazy to do it yourself then you shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of a car! ;-)

[Bri w]

Er NOOOooooooooo.

Have they done an apprenticeship - NOooooooo.

Have they done a manufacturer course - NOOooooooo.

We spend hundreds/thousands buying our pride and joy bike or car and ..............NOooooooo. I'd sooner claw out my eyes with a pickle fork.

[Dave20046]

Only time I've let halfrauds touch my car is when I slipped one of the guys a note on his break to fit me a headunit and the other day when it was far too early to be fathoming how their weird style wiper clips fitted on. Got one to do it for me, pleased to say it took him a few minutes!

Wouldn't let them if I wasn't overwatching and certainly wouldn't pay halfords.

[barwel1992]

i wouldent let them touch my push bike let alone my car (if i had one)

[Dave20046]

i wouldent let them touch my push bike let alone my car (if i had one)
Talking of which actually, a friend of mine who happens to be a moron ignored my advice of not buying a flatpack bike and even ignored the halfords employee who told him not to buy that particular bike. Well whether it's down to the bike or the halfords chimp that built it I don't know but the gear changes are fooking rough the front brakes do not work at all and I was shocked when the rear brake worked.....but then the balance was restored when I realised it was actually locked on.

[Jayneflakes]

i wouldent let them touch my push bike

:smt041 I am a brilliant cycle mechanic, I even make my own frames. Mind you I wont let anyone else work on my bikes! :smurfin:

[BBadger]

Why....just why...i do everything i can to the bike and the car that doesn't require a good amount of mechanical skill or knowledge.
And i like learning so tinkering about for an hour is always funner than paying someone who dont have a clue to break it in 5 mins, i can do that myself thankyou very much.

[Lozzo]

Not a hope in hell. In Bedford my 18 yr old nephew is one of the idiots they employ to do this, and he's a completely clueless f*ckwit who is 9 times out of 10 stoned on weed at work.

[Von Teese]

:smt041 I am a brilliant cycle mechanic, I even make my own frames. Mind you I wont let anyone else work on my bikes! :smurfin:
This is true however you were a brilliant cycle mechanic BEFORE you worked for Halfords! And Halfords was only the stop gap for you until they dropped a ton of whatever it was on your head and caused you injury...need I say more?

Oh by the way, hugs to Jasper xxx

[Wideboy]

hehe all the answers i expected, i knew about the training side ....... or lack of it :rolleyes:

[Jayneflakes]

This is true however you were a brilliant cycle mechanic BEFORE you worked for Halfords! And Halfords was only the stop gap for you until they dropped a ton of whatever it was on your head and caused you injury...need I say more?

Oh by the way, hugs to Jasper xxx

Yes, they did drop a large box on my noggin and it did rather hurt a lot.

Jasper sends purrs.