Dash cams avoid Halfords

Joey66

Joey66

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Purchased on up in Scotland for my daughter to be fitted as a Christmas present - as she is not well with Long Covid - her car it has drained the battery - the front camera kept on falling off - 3 times the breakdown company came out to start it looked at the dashcam & told her to get her battery checked as they were sure it was wired incorrectly - Kwick fit confirmed it today -the battery alternator was fine it was the camera very badly fitted causing it to drain the battery -
Aftersales was pathetic at Halfords -
I am waiting for my money back on my card plus compensation & book it in with an auto electrician up there - I did warn her not to use Halfords, but there was a sale on ....

Never again cheap & nasty they never even used the wiring loom I paid for with the cameras front & back .....
 

Joey66 said:
Purchased on up in Scotland for my daughter to be fitted as a Christmas present - as she is not well with Long Covid - her car it has drained the battery - the front camera kept on falling off - 3 times the breakdown company came out to start it looked at the dashcam & told her to get her battery checked as they were sure it was wired incorrectly - Kwick fit confirmed it today -the battery alternator was fine it was the camera very badly fitted causing it to drain the battery -
Aftersales was pathetic at Halfords -
I am waiting for my money back on my card plus compensation & book it in with an auto electrician up there - I did warn her not to use Halfords, but there was a sale on ....

Never again cheap & nasty they never even used the wiring loom I paid for with the cameras front & back .....
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Is Kwick Fit the Aldi version of Kwik Fit?
 

You know things are bad when there is more staff than customers and them there customers are at the returns section
This is what I noticed in Halfords in speke retail park not long before it closed down
 

Only went there when I needed a new bulb on my old A3.

Any other car I've had I'd always bought from local parts places and fitted them myself but for reasons best known to Audi one of the headlamps required several tools, smaller hands than a baby, the removal of what seemed like half the front of the car and the loss of around 30-40 percent of the skin on your knuckle to change one particular bulb. Can't remember which one specifically.

Halfords would change a bulb for about £3 or something when you bought the bulb from them. Obviously a quick and simple job on most cars so easy money given it persuaded people to pay the Halfrauds premium on the part price and then a few more quid on top for 5 minutes of an employees time.

The crestfallen look on the employees face, and the schadenfreude fuelled laughter of any nearby colleagues, when I mentioned the model of the car he was about to fit a bulb for was always a clear sign of £3 well spent.

Pretty sure they've at least doubled or trebled the charge now. Probably make a small fortune off people paying £10 to have a new windscreen wiper clicked into place.
 
Rita_Poon said:
halfrauds for a reason.
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Bought a car tyre checker/inflator online from them a while ago. Paid online, went to the shop next day and picked it up. Checked my bank account online for something else a couple of days later to find they had taken the payment fine for the tyre inflator thing but had also set up a monthly subscription on my account to themselves - a bit like a direct debit(?) - for the same amount. Contacted bank and they sorted it. Haven't been back, won't be going back. Halfrauds is about right.
 
Cake said:
Bought a car tyre checker/inflator online from them a while ago. Paid online, went to the shop next day and picked it up. Checked my bank account online for something else a couple of days later to find they had taken the payment fine for the tyre inflator thing but had also set up a monthly subscription on my account to themselves - a bit like a direct debit(?) - for the same amount. Contacted bank and they sorted it. Haven't been back, won't be going back. Halfrauds is about right.
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Naughty that. Scumbag behaviour.
 
I bought one at Halfords once and was to have it fitted but after I found out the guy who couldn’t find said dash cam that I had click and collected (it was on a shelf behind him in full view of myself) and then tried to get me to pay for it when it was already paid for, whilst simultaneously being unable to use the till was to be the guy fitting the thing I decided to fit it myself.

I can totally sympathise with Joey here.
 
This thread is very upsetting, I write today not with a wrench in hand, but with a heavy heart. Once, Halfords stood tall – a gleaming orange beacon in the misty retail parks of Britain. A temple of torque wrenches, Haynes manuals, and men in fleeces quietly muttering about spark plugs. A place where real motoring advice was dispensed by employees who knew the difference between a carburettor and a toaster.

And don’t get me started on the car audio aisle. Once the preserve of serious stereo upgrades and FM transmitters of questionable legality – now a shrine to RGB lighting and TikTok-compatible ring lights.

Halfords used to be where British motoring dreams began: you entered with a shopping list and left with the exact opposite, but somehow you felt alive. Now? It’s like walking into a discount electronics graveyard built on the ruins of our youth.

Bring back the oily rag. Bring back the sullen man in the branded polo shirt who could recite the entire Bosch spark plug catalogue from memory. Bring back our Halfords.
 

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