Christmas gifts

[Quinten]

Only 40 odd days till xmas, and so I've started to think what I would like the old geezer to give to me this year...

I decided that I really need some good tools that would allow me to do some basic work on my car (like changing plugs, etc), after I saw a nice case at Halfords with over 200 tools, but then started to think that more not always means useful.

So since I am a novice car mechanic, I thought I'd try some crowd-sourced opinions

My budget is £100... please?

[firman]

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Some say Halfords pro stuff is as good as Snap-On

[Hitch78]

firman said:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Some say Halfords pro stuff is as good as Snap-On

Who - Halfords?

[ambuletz]

^ Quite afew people on here have them and they're quite highly rated. They're pretty good and worth purchasing. My dad owns one, has had it for well over 7 years now, and it's still going strong

[firman]

ambuletz said:

^ Quite afew people on here have them and they're quite highly rated. They're pretty good and worth purchasing. My dad owns one, has had it for well over 7 years now, and it's still going strong

My point exactly. Good quality tools, lifetime guarantee and a damn site cheaper the Snap-On

[TonyRPH]

Anybody notice that the socket set pictured in the link has a couple of sockets missing?

It's just like being in store and looking at the display stuff!

Whilst I like these sets and think they're excellent value for money, I don't see the point of the AF sockets, when the vast majority of vehicles are metric now.

I appreciate that Halfords are trying to provide for all customers, but it seems pointless paying for a bunch of AF sockets that most hobbyists are unlikely to use (apart from those who work on old British cars of course..)

I would have thought that providing separate AF / Metric sets would give better choice.

[DannyVTS]

TonyRPH said:

Anybody notice that the socket set pictured in the link has a couple of sockets missing?

It's just like being in store and looking at the display stuff!

Whilst I like these sets and think they're excellent value for money, I don't see the point of the AF sockets, when the vast majority of vehicles are metric now.

I appreciate that Halfords are trying to provide for all customers, but it seems pointless paying for a bunch of AF sockets that most hobbyists are unlikely to use (apart from those who work on old British cars of course..)

I would have thought that providing separate AF / Metric sets would give better choice.

That's my main reason for not buying the 150 piece professional kit, my current box is full of af sockets that are brand new.
Don't worry about missing out on the £99 offer though, as much as they advertise it the same deal has ran for 2 years so far

[bazking69]

firman said:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Some say Halfords pro stuff is as good as Snap-On

They are wrong. However, for any Sunday mechanic, Halfords stuff is bang on.

[Quinten]

I'd guess you could call me a Sunday mechanic

That socket set looks rather nice, I'd have to give that a closer inspection next week...

Any other sites I should take a look at?

[Silent1]

it's clear none of you are farmers, halfords imperial and metric take some good abuse and then then you just take them back sans receipt and it's a free change

[wibble cb]

I just had to replace my socket set, as it was getting on a bit...I got a bit of a deal, this set not for the advertised price though, I got it for 75 bucks (half price) with 2 free sets of spanners, 7 SAE and 7 metric combination spanners, normally 45 bucks a set each...



Should do me fine.

[Larry Dickman]

I'm sorry if this is getting boring now but for the 1000005th time multipoint sockets are not ideal, you will eventually at some point round something off & you will be pissed off. Six point sockets are the way to go.