Anyone trusted Kwik Fit to fit a battery ?

[RUSSELLM]

There's 3 on Halford's site that apparently work with my registration plate/car & 2 on ATS's site, however this one from Kwik Fit appears to be 70AH with 590 cranking...

http://www.kwik-fit.com/batteries.asp

Anyone used one & can they be trusted not to turn the car into a Blue blob of molten fibreglass ?

[bobbins]

Did mine myself but it is a bit of a faff. A place like Kwik Fit should be able to nail it (not literally though!)

[Tacchino]

Wouldn't trust them with changing the battery in my TV remote.

After having the tracking done on a Mondeo they didn't bother tightening any locknuts up.
End result .... one well stuffed front end.

Previously left a different Kwik Fit with loose wheel nuts.

Pay peanuts ... employ monkeys!

[Vee8ight]

An friend of mine had 2 new front tyres a few years ago, Kwik-Fit managed to fit 2 tyres with different profile, an 80 and a 60!
She asked me a few days after to check her steering as it was always pulling to the left, when I found the error!
I wouldn't trust Kwik fit to organise a pissup in a brewery!

[pmessling]

Changing the batteries easy. Eurocarparts is probably cheaper. Plus do a search and you'll find a 25% off discount.

[jamieduff1981]

Kwik Fit lifted my friend's (at the time) 1 year old Ford Cougar up with a 2-poster and missed the jacking points buckling both quarter panels.

You might as well neck a bottle of vodka, blind fold yourself and have a go on your own using a chainsaw as your toolkit.

I wouldn't trust Halfwits either. Quite what some spotty teenager knows about car maintenance I don't know... Either do it yourself or pay a proper garage to do it.

[Gazzab]

I wouldn't trust their websites to match a battery to your car.

[GasMunkey]

You lot are being fking ridiculous! not all Halfords staff are bad. I have a friend who was a senior master technician at Audi, and because of the recession he now works at Halfords, just simply because any job is better than no job, I'd happily trust him with any thing on my car

And im sure he's alot more knowledgeable than you guys that have posted on this thread!

Every one's a armchair internet engineer!

[Gazzab]

GasMunkey said:

You lot are being fking ridiculous! not all Halfords staff are bad. I have a friend who was a senior master technician at Audi, and because of the recession he now works at Halfords, just simply because any job is better than no job, I'd happily trust him with any thing on my car

And im sure he's alot more knowledgeable than you guys that have posted on this thread!

Every one's a armchair internet engineer!

They are all bad. It's a fact.
I doubt he has fitted a battery to a cerbera. I doubt he knows which type fits, that all cerbs battery compartments are slightly different, what the max height is, that lugs need to be recessed, which way round the polarities need to be, how the air boxes on different models are removed etc.... I am sure he can work it out though given time etc

[scotty_d]

Not all staff but I would not trust any of them at my local store to put a nut in a monkeys mouth.

Edited by scotty_d on Saturday 8th December 15:21

[Biker's Nemesis]

Vee8ight said:

An friend of mine had 2 new front tyres a few years ago, Kwik-Fit managed to fit 2 tyres with different profile, an 80 and a 60!
She asked me a few days after to check her steering as it was always pulling to the left, when I found the error!
I wouldn't trust Kwik fit to organise a pissup in a brewery!

I had 2 new tyres fitted to my car at Kwik Fit yesterday. I got a free coffee and a warm reception to sit in while I watched them fit/balance the torque the wheel nuts.

In 30 years I have never had anything go wrong with anything at any garage.

Some people must just be unlucky.

[jamieduff1981]

GasMunkey said:

You lot are being fking ridiculous! not all Halfords staff are bad. I have a friend who was a senior master technician at Audi, and because of the recession he now works at Halfords, just simply because any job is better than no job, I'd happily trust him with any thing on my car

And im sure he's alot more knowledgeable than you guys that have posted on this thread!

Every one's a armchair internet engineer!

Ok not all, but unless you've read their CVs before hand and surveyed previous customers then nobody with half a brain would choose to put a car you want back in one piece into to Kwik Fit or Halfords over anywhere else.

And I am an engineer thanks, both degree educated and you're welcome to know the list of equipment I have in the garage for car and aero work. I don't believe I'm narrowing my options too much by automatically discounting Halfords or Kwik Fit, but each to their own. You can usually tell a car that's been worked on by ham fisted morons the first time you try to do any DIY work and find damaged threads, chunks out of nearby paint etc. Putting cars anywhere is a lottery unless someone who's opinion is actually worth anything has used the establishment and the named individual before for similar work.

[jamieduff1981]

GasMunkey said:

You lot are being fking ridiculous! not all Halfords staff are bad. I have a friend who was a senior master technician at Audi, and because of the recession he now works at Halfords, just simply because any job is better than no job, I'd happily trust him with any thing on my car

And im sure he's alot more knowledgeable than you guys that have posted on this thread!

Every one's a armchair internet engineer!

Ok not all, but unless you've read their CVs before hand and surveyed previous customers then nobody with half a brain would choose to put a car you want back in one piece into to Kwik Fit or Halfords over anywhere else.

And I am an engineer thanks, both degree educated and you're welcome to know the list of equipment I have in the garage for car and aero work. I don't believe I'm narrowing my options too much by automatically discounting Halfords or Kwik Fit, but each to their own. You can usually tell a car that's been worked on by ham fisted morons the first time you try to do any DIY work and find damaged threads, chunks out of nearby paint etc. Putting cars anywhere is a lottery unless someone who's opinion is actually worth anything has used the establishment and the named individual before for similar work.

[Tacchino]

GasMunkey said:

You lot are being fking ridiculous! not all Halfords staff are bad. I have a friend who was a senior master technician at Audi, and because of the recession he now works at Halfords, just simply because any job is better than no job, I'd happily trust him with any thing on my car

And im sure he's alot more knowledgeable than you guys that have posted on this thread!

Every one's a armchair internet engineer!

Do all Chimp owners get upset when peanuts and monkeys get used in the same sentence?

[cerdad]

learn your car and diy it,20 mins max.

[camel_landy]

Not sure I'd even trust them to make me a cuppah, let alone change the batteries in my TV remote!!!

M

[LMMAC]

Is this thread for real ???? Or have I missed read it ! Why would you need somebody else to change your battery ! Next you'll be getting someone else to check your tyre pressures !

[RUSSELLM]

I'm a lazy fecker & I'd rather pay someone else to do it.

I pay someone to valet it as well, as I can't be arsed cleaning it either.

[Jhonno]

Take it to a Specialist then...

[camel_landy]

Jhonno said:

Take it to a Specialist then...

...or at very least, someone that knows what they're doing!!

M