Halfords fitting service

[Wideboy]

bit of research / just interested

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

little help here....

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.

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

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???

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

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.