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had to go get a new battery for my sisters mini
"I want a battery for a mini"
"What sort"
"A proper one"
"A 1999 Mini Cooper"
"Oh! a bmw!"
"NO! A Rover Mini Cooper 1999 1275 "
"They stopped making those in 1992"
"No they stopped in 2000"
"No that was when they made bmws"
"No they made mini's til 2000 anway have you got a battery?"
"Well it says here that it's part number (blah blah) rover mini 1991 and it's £39.99 but we don't have one in stock"
"fine :annoyed: "
having to deal with an ignoramus like that jeeeesus. :smash:
Sideways Danny
08-03-2004, 11:30
Originally posted by *DeathStar*
"They stopped making those in 1992"
what an idiot, so the 40th anniversary completely passed him by in 1999 then?:annoyed: :censored:
Originally posted by *DeathStar*
had to go get a new battery for my sisters mini
"I want a battery for a mini"
"What sort"
"A proper one"
"A 1999 Mini Cooper"
"Oh! a bmw!"
"NO! A Rover Mini Cooper 1999 1275 "
"They stopped making those in 1992"
"No they stopped in 2000"
"No that was when they made bmws"
"No they made mini's til 2000 anway have you got a battery?"
"Well it says here that it's part number (blah blah) rover mini 1991 and it's £39.99 but we don't have one in stock"
"fine :annoyed: "
having to deal with an ignoramus like that jeeeesus. :smash:
Bunch of twats. When I went in wanting a battery for the 200, first they tried to tell me my car didn't exist (apparently Nissan stopped making 200s after the S13 :rolleyes: ) then when they eventually tracked down the right battery it turned out to be flat when I fitted it to the car. Took it back and they tested all the similar batteries they had and all of them were flat.
though fcuk that and got a refund, topped up my existing battery, gave it a good charge then plugged in one of those devises that keep it permanently topped up. Been fine since.
Halfords can be absolute shite at times, unless you want some neons.
2 Black Lines
08-03-2004, 11:32
Pay peanuts get minkey ( in best Clouseau stylee).
:D
They must train them specifically for this... I am sure they have staff that know what they are doing, however they seem to always put the idiots out for me to ask....
"Have you got any plusgas?"
"Whats that?"
"Unseizes rusty bolts"
"That stuff is rubbish, we have some [insert halfords own brand here]"
"You said you didn't know what it was"
"I hear it's rubbish though"
"err, thanks, bye!"
:rolleyes:
they did have a set of brake pads for a triumph stag though :rolleyes: :D
well that's her fault for driving a mini, isn't it???
:D
she loves her mini! :D
calls the bmw ones binis or "those fat german things"
i dont care i think her mini is fooking great lol.. uses it to get too and from work.....kids dont go in it.....not the saftest car but its a laugh on the right road :D
R33-Drifter
08-03-2004, 11:41
At least you kinda expect that from a Halfords garage, I went a Toyota Garage over the weekend for some bits, and the bloke on the parts counter didn't even know what a GT4 was :D lol
I have to contradict that with toyota, the one here has been superb... they were really excited to hear of an 86 in east anglia.... plus the guy there gave me loads of discount on the new manifold as he could clearly see I was really short of cash.... he set me up an account with them now :D
on the invoice number it just says "Gary" :)
Toyota are cool :notworthy
PulsatingStar
08-03-2004, 11:48
Toyota sucked when I had a GT4 - they didnt understand anything and kept giving me wrong quotes and all sorts.
Oh yes, and according to halfords I cant get locking wheels nuts for an RX7 because they dont have alloy wheels. Righty then :D
Lee
Maybe I was just bloody lucky :)
or maybe they just took pity on me because I can't have a non rusty car ;)
Was told a few weeks ago by there "AA" expert that,
My 200 does not have a turbo :annoyed: and its only the jap import 200’s :eek: :confused: that have turbos.
Oh and its a 1.8 not a 2.0. :smash:
In the end, I made him look :-
He was convinced that it had some kind of engine transplant :rolleyes:
And then refused to discuss it any further :notworthy
Total wa*kers, but they do make you laugh though :D
least u actually get served :rolleyes: or slightly served by all accounts
i just get ignored :cry:
use female charm :)
im a sucker for it when i am in a customars house :smitten: :D
Codemonkey
08-03-2004, 12:19
Originally posted by Hachi-Roku
They must train them specifically for this... I am sure they have staff that know what they are doing, however they seem to always put the idiots out for me to ask....
"Have you got any plusgas?"
"Whats that?"
"Unseizes rusty bolts"
"That stuff is rubbish, we have some [insert halfords own brand here]"
"You said you didn't know what it was"
"I hear it's rubbish though"
"err, thanks, bye!"
:rolleyes:
The Leamington Halfrauds spanner monkeys have special training in stripping sump threads too. Muppets.
It's a shame the staff are so bad, cos the actual stuff in the shops is OK.
Sideways14a
08-03-2004, 12:23
My 200 does not have a turbo
I had a nissan main dealer tell me this, and be quite insistant about it as well :eek:
Ohh how I laughed all the way out of the showroom:D
I remember going to a Halfords some years ago for some wiper blades for my Safrane. I got pounced on before I'd even had time to look through the applications book by some spotty little oik. He assured me that Renault didn't make a Safrane and was I sure it wasn't a Peugeot or a Toyota. :smash: :smash: :smash:
bedford halfrauds have a nice scam.
outside the doors is a pallet of 2l screen wash. buy 1 get 1 free . inside is another pallet of screen wash. obviously i didn't want to carry two big bottles round the shop while hunting for neons, so i waited until was leaving and picked up two from inside the shop.
the bill went through, and i was charged for both bottles. pointed it out to the arse-istant who told me they were different lines, and the one i got was buy 2 get 1 free.
they are identical bottles of halfords screen wash. ffs.
so i took the two bottles from inside back, and got two bottles from outside.
Infinity
08-03-2004, 13:23
Anyone get the impression that Halfords staff are the ones who failed the McDonalds exam :wack: :D
Jut
Originally posted by Grim Turbo2
bedford halfrauds have a nice scam.the bill went through, and i was charged for both bottles. pointed it out to the arse-istant who told me they were different lines, and the one i got was buy 2 get 1 free.
they are identical bottles of halfords screen wash. ffs.
so i took the two bottles from inside back, and got two bottles from outside.
Must be wrong because identical items will have a identical item code, therfore the same offer, dunno what happened there.
Anyway, as an employee myself :D :rolleyes: , i gotta say it aint that bad in all stores, i reckon ours is quite good, most of the staff know quite alot about cars, even the muppets there know the basics.
Originally posted by Matty T
Must be wrong because identical items will have a identical item code, therfore the same offer, dunno what happened there.
Anyway, as an employee myself :D :rolleyes: , i gotta say it aint that bad in all stores, i reckon ours is quite good, most of the staff know quite alot about cars, even the muppets there know the basics.
I know how it feels to work somewhere and everyone slags it off because no one knows anything, I used to work at PC World, lord forgive me :)
Then again, one guy came in, acted like he knew everything and said he wanted 6 jigabytes for office 98
I promptly laughed and went to lunch :)
manic_mechanic
08-03-2004, 15:53
Not all Halfords employees are monkeys - my brother used to work for them and he's a fine mechanic (apart from his love of the blue oval!) His boss was truly excellent he could diagnose problems really quickly and accurately. Halfords spanner chuckers are now AA spanner chuckers by the way! (Oh my god! :eek: )
I happened to be in one when my brothers mate was buying some 6*9s. He had some money left so the walking zit-fest suggested some sound deadening even though they were going in a standard parcel shelf :no: I pointed out that a bit of dynamat wasnt going to stop a bit of cardboard shaking
I used to work in Halfrauds :o
was only young but learnt quickly to grab something and then spend all day walking around looking like i was buzy
One chap managed to sell a woman green paint for her white car claiming that the current climate conditions would make it dry white :D :smash:
and the other managed to sell a halfords roof box with the fittink kit locked inside and no keys :nod:
i preferred going into the stores and climbing onto the top racking and have a kip :D
god it was a crappy job but it was fun
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