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KevinD3
Member Since: 05 Aug 2020
Location: Sutton Coldfield
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| Good servicing deal at Halfords |
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I know, I know, I should be servicing myself, and I do for most items, however.........
bought some small things in in Halfords over the weekend (about £20) and didn’t think anything else.
Had an email through today saying my purchase had qualified me for a free mot, so, I thought, might as well take a look, you have to book by the end of April but MOT can be up till November, mines due in July so tootled in to book for end of June. Browsed the servicing and the currently have a deal on servicing, including major service down from £314 to £275, and then another 20% off, and then free mot when taken with the service, that’s good I thought, Dennis could do with a full service and the gearbox, diff and engine oils would cost me that, so I went ahead and booked it.
At checkout it asked for any voucher codes, the deal was free mot with the service, but I also had the emailed voucher for free mot so being cheeky, gave it a go....and it took another £39 off the bill 
So basically, I’ve just booked a £315 major service and a £40 mot for only £188! The £167 saving can go towards the defects they find on the MOT 
In the words of my darling wife “look honey, I just went to buy a £40 mot, but by spending £188 I saved £167, what a bargain!  2008 HSE Stornoway Grey
My Wife thinks the D3 is a hobby, The D3 thinks the wife is 💕
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L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
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Ditto
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| 8th Apr 2021 6:32 pm |
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Flack
Member Since: 06 Sep 2006
Location: Preston Lancashire
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+1 What DM says
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| 8th Apr 2021 6:32 pm |
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KevinD3
Member Since: 05 Aug 2020
Location: Sutton Coldfield
Posts: 1207
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Never going to defend them, but my local branch is alright, diagnosed and fixed my alternator issue last year after a week at the local stealers couldn’t. One of the mechanics there also owns a D3, and does a lot of work on them so there’s at least one guy there who knows a D3 from a transit van  2008 HSE Stornoway Grey
My Wife thinks the D3 is a hobby, The D3 thinks the wife is 💕
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| 8th Apr 2021 6:58 pm |
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riverblanche
Member Since: 31 Aug 2010
Location: retford'ish
Posts: 2210
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| Re: Good servicing deal at Halfords |
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KevinD3 wrote: full service and the gearbox, diff and engine oils would cost me that, :
I would get them to confirm Exactly what they plan on doing to the gearbox as well 
is it a top up and not an oil change (then as above would they even know How to do that  )
If you get it all done for that price mind, well done 
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I plan on living forever and so far so good !
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| 8th Apr 2021 7:13 pm |
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JackNorris
Member Since: 06 Jul 2012
Location: Beds/Bucks Border
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Agree, I saw the Halfords MOT for free thing and thought I may give it a punt.
Wouldn't let them do anything else, certainly not touch my diffs or gearbox!
Best of luck tho, certainly some man maths there   MY2023 Discovery 5 R-Dynamic 3.0
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| 8th Apr 2021 7:53 pm |
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KevinD3
Member Since: 05 Aug 2020
Location: Sutton Coldfield
Posts: 1207
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River, it’s a levels check and top up. Will do a complete replace at some point when I swap over to the metal sump. 2008 HSE Stornoway Grey
My Wife thinks the D3 is a hobby, The D3 thinks the wife is 💕
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| 8th Apr 2021 8:04 pm |
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gareth71
Member Since: 10 Apr 2016
Location: North-east Wales
Posts: 548
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What's the betting that the 'free' MOT results in a long list of jobs which absolutely have to be done to the car?
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| 8th Apr 2021 10:17 pm |
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aja4x4
Member Since: 14 Apr 2019
Location: Westbury
Posts: 2459
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Its like playing Russian roulette with only one bullet missing, someone will get a good job done but are you going to take a chance. Andrew
D3 2.7tdv6 2005
D4 3.0 SDV6 Commercial died and gone to LR heaven
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| 8th Apr 2021 11:04 pm |
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Hardware
Member Since: 28 Jun 2016
Location: Hiding under the M60
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things DO change. I believe that TWO of our local KWIK-FIT places are getting good reviews for 4 Wheel Alignment !
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| 8th Apr 2021 11:06 pm |
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aja4x4
Member Since: 14 Apr 2019
Location: Westbury
Posts: 2459
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Wasnt April fools day last week ? Andrew
D3 2.7tdv6 2005
D4 3.0 SDV6 Commercial died and gone to LR heaven
D5 3.0 SDV6 HSE
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| 8th Apr 2021 11:09 pm |
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Bubblehead
Member Since: 01 Jun 2020
Location: Horndean
Posts: 214
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gareth71 wrote:What's the betting that the 'free' MOT results in a long list of jobs which absolutely have to be done to the car?
I had that a while back when i brought my TD5... took it to a LR Indie near me for first MOT (thinking i'll get an honest report) ... about £1800 worth of jobs which without wouldn't pass its MOT, according to them.
Took it to another Indie and it passed with a couple of advisories!! Did the advisories but The large majority of original failure points never did need doing in the 8 years i owned it.
Won't name them but they were clearly trying their luck, will never go back and feel sorry for those that trust them! 2005 Disco3 HSE Auto 😁
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| 8th Apr 2021 11:37 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
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My local Halfords has fitted a lot of electrical items to several cars and have done a really good job. In fact my camper van is in next week with them.
At the end of the day it’s down to the people and their skills / knowledge. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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| 8th Apr 2021 11:44 pm |
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Grunders
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Location: Manchester
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Hardware wrote:things DO change. I believe that TWO of our local KWIK-FIT places are getting good reviews for 4 Wheel Alignment !
I always take my cars for MOT to our local KF, the Swinton branch, never had a problem and no job building by them, at the moment I’m rebuilding another mini and took it on Friday for MOT, they found the emissions were out, I did some work on the car the same day and took it back, they run it through the emissions tester and was still high, again took out away renewed a couple of things and took it back a couple of days later, they did another test although was still not reaching the standard they haven’t charged me for the re- checks and the MOT only cost £19.71
The reason for the failure was the engine was badly coked up and oil bypassing stem seals and 1 piston, engine currently in bits, new rings installed on all four cylinders, de-coked awaiting head to come back from engine shop, should get it back today and I’ll rebuild it this weekend, If it ain't broke... Take it apart anyway, how else you gonna find out how it works
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