Halfrauds?

[chris-red]

Apparantly not, I was well impressed with the service I got yesterday. I was helping my mate sort his ZZR600 out and we needed service items. Poped into halford on a friday night 5 minutes before it closed. I was after 4 spark plugs, oil filter and oil. I managed to get all of these for a 15 year old kawker with no trouble at all and it came to under £50!

The guy was really helpful, I was blowned away thqat they stocked these parts and didn't cost the earth.

Halfords gets 2 thumbs fresh from Chris
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[craigs23]

Problem with Halfords is I usually pop in for oil, chain wax or something, spot and offer and come out with £25's worth of stuff I didn't think I needed.

No complaints from me on what they offer though.... they even stock Meguiars products.

[.....]

I hate the place but sadly with not many alternatives around here needs must and all that.

8 times out of 10 they won't have what I have in stock - even the most basic things. Then 9 times out of 10 the horrible little toad shop assistants are too busy chatting to their pond life mates about the latest bit of plastic turd they have stuck on their spaz chariot to be of any use. When you do ask them something the most likely response will be a blank stare.

[Stalk]

Oil filter for an Iveco van, they could not find it listed under "E".

[EUMP]

Depends if you get the good people working there or the people that just mop around to be honest - Halfords have a good paint selection, not alot of things for bikes but it's not bad.
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[cyberglass]

heres a tip
borrow a wageslip from someone you know who works in the automotive industry and get a trade card.

Can get you upto 60% all car parts and tools
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[Nufkamp]

As I've probably mentioned before, my local Halfords ask 'petrol or diesel?' if you want spark plugs.
Fills me with confidence.
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[Irn-Bru]

Never had a good experience with them. Went to get a battery for my scooter and the bloke took it out and ended up rounding a screw off when he put it back together Then when I went to return a socket set (that last all of 5 minutes) I waited for about 20 minutes to get served because they were too busy putting a display up or something. Some woman was screaming her tits off because of that It was rather funny.
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[Mystery]

halfords are ok for some stuff but like really shit on paint prices like 7-8 just for 100ml of spray and stuff ok its good but not worth it
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[WildGoose]

Halfords is what it is, one stop shop, and if you are in a hurry for a service part or tool, chances are they might have it. Although you may well have to pay over the odds for it. Exception to this is their range of torque wrenches which RiDe tested as quite accurate and at a price well below the equivalent from other manufacturers.

In Reading, there is a dedicated motorcycle parts shop a few hundred yards down the road from the halfords, it would follow that it should be more expensive, but it is often surprisingly cheaper, its literally a counter, most things are hidden and you need to ask for, so its rare to walk out with shite you don't need, and the guy who runs it knows his own stock well, so it isnt like talking to a monkey.

Although imo if you are in halfords looking for advice, you have bigger problems than they do.

Oh and a final minor point, their advertising style on TV annoys the shit out of me, ever seen halfords finding a paint match and applying it to your car with a compressor? (assuming they prep the surface first etc) utter bollocks.
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[andyscooter]

[T0MMY]

Halfords is bloody expensive for most things I find but it is open when motor factors aren't. Their tools are very good though and constantly on various offers so well worth getting.

Amusingly, I was queuing in there the other day for fucking ages, as you do, and the woman in front of me was buying a windscreen wiper. She asked if she could have it fitted and the guy said she would have to wait for quite a while but instead of saying never mind, I'll do it, she said she'd be outside waiting in the car. When I walked out she was sat with her husband patiently in the car park. I couldn't believe that they didn't feel, even working as a team, that they could install this fucking wiper themselves rather than wait for half an hour
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[CBA]

i'd have got the filter for a tenner tops, 12 quid for theplugs NGK,
and its upto you, 7 quid for ok oil, or 17.50 for the good stuff.
halfords is mediocre at best, I went in for STP (oil treatment) and the guy was trying desparately to sell me stop smoke...
also their paint is expensive and it dosent cover, their cheaper tools are the stuff you get from the market only painted black and even worse. try and find a "good" set of pliers in there.

[lnewland]

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[Davo]

[G]

On a similar vein - in the M&S/BP close to my work the rather dumb girl behind the counter was asking everyone if they wanted a car wash as part of their standard sales-patter. I was in the van, so fair enough... but the biker behind me wearing full kit and flip up lid still on was also asked!

[Kickstart]

Hi

Probably very much depends on your local branch staff. Never had any real problems with the local one (and at least one of the staff still there was there when we moved to Stafford 14 years ago). Prices are variable, but a while back I needed a water pump for a car. Halfords wanted the same as the best other local price I had managed to find (Partco), but got it in next day while Partco wanted an extra £5 for next day delivery.

All the best

Keith
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[Deano]

i like halfords and what they offer, what I dont like generally is the people they employ which tends to be people that recently left school, dont give a shit and thick as shit dickheads.

i bought spray paint from there not long ago as the kid behind the til was asking what my graf name was

ive walked in there seen something that I thought I would buy, a week later I decde to buy it as I have the money and get told that they've never stocked the item and its "specialist tool" seems to the phrase that gets thrown at me.
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[boundy]

get your self a trade card it makes the place alot better

[Sir Black Pig]

Our local Halfords is a bit of a lottery, a couple of members of staff should be wearing MP3 players, listening to a constant loop of "Breathe in - Breath out - Breathe in - Breath out " etc. Whereas a couple of the others are absolutely brilliant. They can get you what you want or if not offer you valid alternatives, and they do know what they are talking about and are not frightened to ask questions for clarification.

So as I say ....lottery.

Value for money? No. Convenient and accessible? Yes