Rovertech 2.0

Went to buy an oseal set today and being a sunday, only Halfrauds was open. £8 for an oseal set, pulled out the trade card.. £4! Bargain, I take back all I said!

I bought a 1/2" torque wrench from halfords the other month, was rrp at 80 quid turned out to be 47 on the trade card, lifetime guarantee too, cant go wrong

how you get trade card?

Be in the motor trade (independent, national, armed forces, public transport etc)or student mechanic, all with relevant proof.. Just like trade point at b&q for tradesmen

Just read the list

Do you think I qualify being in motor factors trade

Radweld, £1.08 each. I always keep a healthy stock at home.

Jesus that's cheep about £14 at ours

Wipers are the one from Halfords!

About £12 per each, or £2-3 on trade card!

Went to halfords to buy a aux belt on Sunday.... willing to pay that little extra for convenience.

They don't sell them any more.

Awesome. So, the point of them is?

or rotor arms or dizzy caps

Do they still sell plastic stick on tat ?

Think they still sell service parts in my local one, belts, caps, plugs, filters etc

no belts
caps
rotor arms
Ht leads

in any of the Edinburgh branches and was led to believe from staff that this was company wide

In all fairness, when was the last time a mass produced UK spec car of any make was made with a rotor arm/dizzy cap? They're only going to stock stuff for common cars, hence why I can't get Ti front pads off the shelf any more.

yeah Stefan very well put, same thought came to me too when i was speaking to my father about it.

Exactly. They are not a full blown motor factors so cant cater for everything.

stefaclese wrote:In all fairness, when was the last time a mass produced UK spec car of any make was made with a rotor arm/dizzy cap? They're only going to stock stuff for common cars, hence why I can't get Ti front pads off the shelf any more.

TBH ti pads ARE common, they're fitted to probably half the Hondas on the road, including mine.


I agree they can't stock everything, but I'd have thought the likes of drive belts would be pretty basic and useful. It's not like they're often car specific, lots of cars share common belts.

The thing I dont get is all the non essential stuff (ie accessories, stereo stuff, bike stuff etc etc) is all cheaper online. Only reason I'd go there is if I need something quickly, and I cant see the urgent need of most of that.

Thing is online you cant feel it and touch it. Get it a lot at work customer comes in and says I bought a rod online but I dont like the feel of it ect so at least by him then walking in can give him advice and he able to look at feel the different rods available you simply do not get that sort of experience buying online.

rover220 wrote:Exactly. They are not a full blown motor factors so cant cater for everything.

They can soon order and get stuff same or next day but then you may as well go to there first line suppliers CAS car parts or Euro car parts and cut out the middle man