General halfords or me

[bramstein]

So i got my punto today 2002 1.2 8v and with it having no service history and the dip stick reading half inch over the max !!! thought i'd give it a service, stupidly got all the bits from halfords and cracked on, finaly got to putting the new oil filter on and noticed it was a diff size and dont go near fitting.
Needed to used the car 0830 tomorrow morn!! dont really want to put the old filter back on and the shops are shut so was wondering how stupid am I in total?

 

[bredsticz]

You're not, there are 2 different sizes of oil filter which seems to be random on each car. They should have asked which size.

 

[bramstein]

Cheers for that now just gotta convince the misses ....

 

[olgit]

Don't worry mate Halfords cant organize a pi55 up in a pub just send your Mrs down to the Halturd shop ya got it from and let her rip in to them :devil:
nuffin worse than when ya Mrs is pi55ed off solet her take out her temper on them

 

[DaveMcT]

If you cant get the correct oil filter put the old one back and swap it when you can. Its not ideal but it is a way of getting to work.

My Spanish mrs is totally top totty for dealing with bad service,

 

[Brad G]

Ex worker!

Alright I use to work at Halfords fitting the Car Audio. Halfords is ****ing terrible!! and thats coming from a old staff member. I even asked for spark plugs got all the way home and they were the wrong ONES!. Pc always crash as their with a cheap server company. Even when they place your car Reg into the system 5/10 it comes up with the wrong parts or says it dosent exist.

The website stock is made up. If it says 0 in stock store will have like 5 and same other way around. Only good points of Halfords is the car cleaning deals 3 for 2 deals etc. Sat Navs are at a decent price and so are the after market audio. If you are wanting service parts either go to Dingbro if you are in Edinburgh or Euro Car Parts. CHeaper and service is 100%

Enough said

 

[olgit]

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My Spanish mrs is totally top totty for dealing with bad service,

I had a Italian girl friend that that was pretty good a dealing with di*kheads with no manners also must be the latin temper :devil:

 

[corky]

There are two different sizes for this my oil looked crap so i just paid £29.99 for a oil service at kwik fit and they checked over my car too well worth the hassle

 

[tinytim]

just find yourself a friendly local motor factors or use shop4parts

 

[burtz]

there are two different sizes for this my oil looked crap so i just paid £29.99 for a oil service at kwik fit and they checked over my car too well worth the hassle

dont do this

just find yourself a friendly local motor factors or use shop4parts

do this

 

[DaveMcT]

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My Spanish mrs is totally top totty for dealing with bad service,

I had a Italian girl friend that that was pretty good a dealing with di*kheads with no manners also must be the latin temper :devil:

Oh there's no temper - she just wont take any sh*t.

My fave was, "Come on Gordito sort it out".

Gordito means fat b'stard (but the bloke wouldnt know that)

 

[olgit]

Oh there's no temper - she just wont take any sh*t.

My fave was, "Come on Gordito sort it out".

Gordito means fat b'stard (but the bloke wouldnt know that)

Nice one mate I can just about remember some of the Italian swearwords/insults she taught me back then, which come in handy somtimes cant say some on here bit over the top for public reading