Buy a battery from halfords and they will kindly fit it for you for only £5!

If you buy a battery from halfords they will kindly fit it for you for only £5. What a service to customers.

Reply to
Bob Gammer
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If you see what a c*ck-up people make of fitting their own batteries you would realise that for the average Joe 5 pounds is really cheap. I have frequently seen: batteries reverse fitted blowing alternators, wrong size fitted, clamps left off, clamps left to fall down into other bits, terminals loose, radio codes lost and need expensive recoding, leads left off, small leads connected to the wrong post, clamps touching the battery posts,

So having a pro fit it for a fiver is cheap, at least you have some recompense if they do it wrong, I expect they also check if the alternator is working, most people fit a new battery and expect it to cure all ills.

MrCheerful

Reply to
MrCheerful

Agreed!, I changed a battery recently and it took me an hour, mainly because I had to rig a device to keep the radio code and I managed to drop the nut from one of the clamps onto a gravel drive and spent 20 minutes searching for it!

Reply to
Me

I remember sorting out a garage fitted battery for my uncle many years ago after they had connected it as positive earth. Fortunately, no damage was done after repolarising the dynamo (alternators were few and far between in those days).

One of Halford's staff actually fitted my CD player for no charge after I'd bought a fittting adaptor on his advice. The CD player was from Argos. :-)

Terry D.

Reply to
Terry D

Je**s... A Fiver is 2 pints and a pack of Nuts.......!!!!!! LOL

Reply to
JK

Wonder what sort of 'pro' Halfords use? The ones I've come across behind the spares counter that you'd expect to have at least some form of training aren't exactly encouraging.

Reply to
Dave Plowman

Technically any d*****ad they're paying is a "pro".

Reply to
Dan Buchan

Well....Donegal in NW Ireland :-(

Reply to
JK

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