UncleFista
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| posted on 8/5/04 at 03:47 PM |
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1/2 price ratchet spanners at Halfords
Yeah I kow it's Halfords, but their "Professional" tools are quality.
I bought a set of ratchet spanners from my local Halfords last week, great quality and lifetime warranty for half the usual price £35 instead of £70.
It's a national offer.
Not "Locost" but nice tools 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 8/5/04 at 08:28 PM |
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Ditto..............
used one of these sets at work for over 2 years no probs, just got me another set for garage..........
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madforfishing
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| posted on 9/5/04 at 08:32 AM |
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Their 'Professional' range is actually pretty good. Although I smashed a 19mm socket a few months ago, they exchanged it one for one with
no hassle. (even though I had actually given it too much 'humpty' with a huge extension bar on a prehistorically siezed nut).
If you do buy from Halfords make sure you are buying 'professional' and not their other make, which aren't lifetime guaranteed.
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Markp
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| posted on 9/5/04 at 10:10 PM |
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I agree
All the tools I have bought (socket sets, spanners, screw drivers set etc) have all been Halfords prof.
Never had a problem with them. Even the screw driver bits you get in the small socket set are better than most.
Recommended
mark
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greggors84
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| posted on 10/5/04 at 12:18 AM |
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Lifetime = 2 years
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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spunky
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| posted on 11/5/04 at 10:22 AM |
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Halfords national offer....
Hmmphh....
1/2 price rachet pro series ratchet spanners....
Not in Newark.....Wankers
John
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robinbastd
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| posted on 11/5/04 at 08:52 PM |
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Nor Truro,and I can't come up with an anagram.
Only a dead fish swims with the tide.
http://smuttygifts.com/
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 11/5/04 at 09:12 PM |
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Smartass!!
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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UncleFista
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 10:06 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by greggors84
Lifetime = 2 years
Not at Halfords mate, take your broken tool back at any time and they'll replace it. No questions asked, no receipt needed
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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James
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 10:45 AM |
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Rubber pipe perished on the foot pump about 6 years after purchase- they changed that no questions (or receipt) asked!
James
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greggors84
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 11:38 AM |
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When i bought a socket from their, i asked the bloke behind the counter what i did if it broke, he said bring it back within two years with the
reciept and they would replace it. He reckoned that 2 years was the lifetime of the tool. I expect my tools to last more than 2 years!
He probably didnt know what he was talking about as per the usual halfords muppets.
I hope the luton or dunstable halfords will replace them anytime then. I might have lost a couple of the reciepts too.
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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Mix
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 05:13 PM |
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It's all relavent. I am required to supply the tools with which I earn my living, (and support my build). These tools are in use constantly and
as such I tend to balance regularity of use with quality. A two year warranty is not bad for tools that are reasonably cheap and not regularly used.
If you are only using them on a casual basis they should last 'a lifetime'
All of my day to day tools are Snap On, £250 my ar*e
Mick
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blueshift
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| posted on 12/5/04 at 09:20 PM |
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I just broke a socket adapter trying to get my wheel nuts off with a breaker bar. Took it back to halfords, the fairly senior floor guy said they
couldn't replace it without proof of purchase, and was asking me how old it was. I said I didn't have proof of purchase, it was about 6
months old, but had obviously come from them and was supposed to have a lifetime warranty. He went to speak to the manager and came back with the
message that "this time, for the sake of a couple of quid, they'd replace it".
I wasn't very impressed. Don't like to think what would have happened if something more expensive had broken.
Admittedly though I was probably exceeding the spec on a 1/2" -> 3/8" adapter by heaving on it with a 24" breaker bar 
Had to get them air wrenched off in the end..
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JH
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| posted on 14/5/04 at 07:56 PM |
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what sizes are included in the set? it doesn't seem to say on the website
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Benzine
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 03:40 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by James
Rubber pipe perished on the foot pump
So close to an Alan Partridge quote there 
The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make
it moral.
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blueshift
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 11:43 PM |
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JH: I think it's a 1/2" to 3/8" and a 3/8" to.. umm.. the smaller common size. 1/4"? both reducers. I forget though,
sorry
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JH
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 10:15 PM |
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sorry i didn't make myself clear!
I mean what size ratchet spanners are in the set mentioned?
cheers
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bob
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| posted on 19/5/04 at 07:55 AM |
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I picked up a set of the flexi-head ratchet spanners yesterday,8 spanners sizes from 9mm to 19mm plus attachment/adapter for 3/8 sockets and driver
which could be handy.
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nutter
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| posted on 26/5/04 at 10:19 PM |
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the tools i got was a all in 1 sorta set from halfords, plenty of sockets and other stuff that i will need when i evenuntaly start my build and on
other cars, and got another socket set as well thats a good one all 6 point ones, keep that out of my tool box cos that weighs a poo load a decent
sized metal cantailver one with a good few sockets spanners hammer and god knows what else. ive seen the ratchet spanners a mates got em they look
pretty good i may get a set when i start braking stuff. snap on stuff is really stupid expensive but halfords stuff looks great and a lifetime
garantee they cant be bad
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MikeR
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| posted on 27/5/04 at 08:05 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bob
I picked up a set of the flexi-head ratchet spanners yesterday,8 spanners sizes from 9mm to 19mm plus attachment/adapter for 3/8 sockets and driver
which could be handy.
Flexi head rachets are great till you're in a scrap yard, reaching under a car trying to undo a bolt .... then the damned head keeps flexing ...
AAArrrgghhh (voice of experience)
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