General That's it MoT'd for another year

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General That's it MoT'd for another year

BrianMcL

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Just back from the local Halfords MOT centre and that's it passed for another year.

It needed a new rear tyre which was worn on the outside (I'm guessing I need to get the 4 wheel alignment done) but at £27.42 for the MOT and £75 for the tyre I'm more than happy.
 
Want to swap? Mine's perfect too. All those issues mentioned on here, they were my other Croma, honest.

£75 for a tyre from Halfords sounds very reasonable (for them). Is it a 16" at that price?
 
Yes this sounds good for Halfords.

I've seen many posts referring to Halfrauds and I think that this often very unfair.

When it comes to Halfords Service & MOT centres (which I have never used) then as far as I can see Halfords have a huge marketing opportunity and to take advantage of that opportunity they have to be 1) no bull**** 2) honest 3) capable 4) no axe to grind and 5) exceptionally price competitive. They will not make friends or money from extracting money from customers on dubious MOT issues etc.

Long may this continue. Having said this Halfords are currently trying to revitalise all there regional service and MOT outlets to get back into the game so given this it will be prudent to monitor "the policy" over the next few years. It could be that once they have regained a sizeable market share and reputation they could be a little more account book critical in the "failure" criteria and cost to "get road worthy". NOTE! I'm not pointing a gun at Halfords. All companies play the market and at this time Halfords are trying to increase market share, reputation, cost effectiveness, etc. so as always there are some great deals and service to be obtained out there.

LONGEVITY - this is the killer service marker be it price, quality, etc. etc. AND SADLY MANY organisations take the short term path to success and fail in the long term path.
 
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It's a 215 50 R 17 branded Goodride (!).

Don't know whether they're any good or not but for the price, fitted, balanced etc. it'll be fine. Job done for now anyway and it's on the back so it's probably not as important as what's on the front.
 
And I suppose a lot of it depends on the people within the shop. I've got to say that I've always found them very pleasant and helpful and today was another good example of that.

One deal I did notice was that they are doing an air and fuel filter change for £35. I think the bits alone are about £15 normally and whilst the air filter's an easy enough job I've still never managed to change the fuel filter myself so that's definitely tempting the next time they need done.
 
I did go to a Halfords garage for a while, until I decided to use a local instead. You can draw a pretty clear line between Helfrauds shops (some of which did also have service centres) and the majority of the service centres, which are the Nationwide chain that they took over and re-branded. The one I used was pretty good, very good prices and you could get all kinds of online discount vouchers to print out too.

I stopped going there when (shortly after the Halfords takeover) they stopped fitting tyres that you took in - it's much cheaper to buy online then pay just for fitting. Many garages have got grumpy about online tyres recently though - presumably they can't compete on price so try and inconvenience you into paying for theirs instead. You can't blame them really.
 
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