Ive been driving for about 8 years now and have always been to halfords to get boys for my car and never usually had problems.
I then got a new car,a Zafira which needed new wipers, so off I went to halfords about an hour before closing,I gave them my reg/car make and model etc and they said which blades I needed.
I bought the blades and paid for them to be fitted, I went outside to wait at my car, waited for about half an hour (they were quite busy) and a young lad came out to fit them,he was struggling and in the end said he couldn't fit them and would go and get someone else,he went back inside so I continued to wait,nobody came back out to me,they shut the shop and I was left waiting outside in the rain with my children in the car, I couldn't drive anywhere because he had removed my old wipers. I called the shop and said I am waiting outside someone needs to come and put my wiper blades on,they put the phone down on me and an older Asian man came out,and put them on without saying a word,i thanked him and he just ignored me and walked back inside.i was made to feel like a nuiscene! I then drove off and by this point it had stopped raining so heavy,put my wipers on to clear windscreen and they jammed together and snapped causing the metal arms to scrape all up my windscreen and therefore leaving me with a massive scratch right across my windscreen. I managed to get home and the following morning I went to auto glass, they said that the wrong size wipers had been fitted hence why they jammed together.i made a complaint to halfords via email,I got an email back asking which store it is as there is 2 in my area so I told them and never heard anything back.to say I was fuming is an understatement.i NEVER get my wipers done by halfords anymore and now I'm left having to pay out the excess on my insurance to have the windscreen repaired!! read more