Halfords Advanced 8 piece Screwdriver Set £6.75

[BillyJ]

Normally £15
Reduced to £7.50
10% off with code: B17TOOLS01
Total price: £6.75

I love the Halfords pro range, the tools are really good.
I've misused their tools and abused their returns policy with no hassle too

https://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/hand-tools/halfords-advanced-8-piece-screwdriver-set


Source:
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/halfords-advanced-6-8-piece-screwdriver-set-lifetime-guarantee-was-15-now-6-75-with-2646824
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Can get the Philips heads as well as the posidrive for the same price
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[NJD]

Code appears to work on any hand tools.

Haven't tried anything else.
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[goto10]

...and f your debit card is registered with Quidco, you also get some cashback when you pay instore.
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[recman]

All of this plus the use of my trade card and they'll end up paying me!

[goto10]

[NJD]

The 3/8 and 1/2 socket sets contain nothing but 12pt sockets, they're decently priced but is a 12pt socket set worth buying?
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[DRZ4Hunned]

[kgm]

I got a set of both this morning. Decent quality as usual.

For those wanting a set of each though you might be better looking at this 30pc set:

https://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/tools/tool-kits/halfords-advanced-screwdriver-bit-set

Doesn't show it on the website but this set is currently half price (normally just under £40 and contains much of the same drivers plus more.

[Matt B]

[chris-red]

I nicked a set off of my dad and bought the other set and the star drivers in a 2 for £20 a while back.

They are good drivers, not as good as my Wera ones but they were a fraction of the price.
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[NJD]

Good to know. I've been told before but didn't now if halfords would be any better.

Don't turn up buying their 50pc spanner set with only a tail bag because their carrying case is the size of my house. Stored all the spanners in a carry-a-bag and going to have to bus it to get the case back another day, oops.

Commute with a full tank of fuel, chains and the tools should be fun. Call me a commuting mobile mechanic.

On the downside my socket set was "ready" but has been cancelled. Turns out they only had one and it was in another customers basket. Said they'll call me when they can but I'll jus reserve it again at another one tonight unless they pull it together. Arse.
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[NJD]

Fuck sakes, I'm going to cry into a corner.

Reserved this spanner set earlier in a rush before work. Priced up the spanners I needed to buy on their own and come to the same price as the set and still had some left over, no brainer I figured.

Spent ages staring at it through the glass cabinet wondering how I was going to get it home after work. Anyway, I purchase it and go back to work starting at the case and all the spanners. Commuted home with the spanners and only now, at home, do I realise that they're not the advanced range and have "chrome vanadium" written on them.

No lifetime guarantee, balls.

I'm not sure if I've just paid a very high price for a set of shit spanners.

On the other hand I now have a complete set that should long fulfil my very limited and occasional mechanical use.

Seems I'm not the only one that has been stung since some reviews state "lifetime gurantee" and they've probably also realised either after writing the review or when they've tried to return one, crafty. Sure it doesn't say advanced anywhere but seems I'm not the only one that's been had.

I'm so exhausted it's not worth the fight to attempt to return them. It was someone else's money, gift, that I used but I wish I'd realised before.
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[Baggyman]

[NJD]

[groovylee]

now with 15% off as well, so £6.37 for the screwdriver set
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[Mawsley]

[NJD]

[Matt B]

[NJD]

[Sload]

[NJD]

Long since purchased the big spanner set. Not overly joyed, as above, that it wasn't Halfords Advanced like I figured it was but in truth the cost of 4 spanners, picked at random, of the Advanced range equals the price of the entire set. I don't really need the Advanced and so since they're going to spend more time gathering dust than getting used it's probably not the worst purchase I've ever made. Plus I've lost the receipts for all the old Advanced spanners I had pre this thread so the extra money I spent wasn't worth it anyway in terms of using "warrenty." Can't feel the build quality difference in terms of weight between normal vs advanced side by side. Bit pricey but I paid with someone else's dollah so all is well.

Out of interest have I been given a wonkey 1/4 ratchet in the set I purchased?

Looking head on at the ratchet switch I flick it to the right to loosen and the left to tighten. The workzone ratchet, as I'd expect, is the opposite way. Are all ratchets not supposed to be flick the switch to the left to loosen and the right to tighten.

It's not really an issue but I can't decide if the mechanism inside has been fitted backwards, or wrong, or if not all ratchets loosen and tighten the same way.
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[andyscooter]

[Fizzer Thou]

Thank you BillyJ.Bought myself a nice set of 1/2" drive socket and driver set
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