bloody Halfords!!!!

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  • bluequattro
    S2Forum Fiend
    • Nov 2004
    • 2960
    • Country: United Kingdom

    #1

    bloody Halfords!!!!

    Don t get your paint mixed there!
    Useless!
    Paid £13 for a small can
    Removed rust, rust treated, skimmed, primed, top coated, lacquered
    Take the bloody masking stuff off, wrong F in colour.
    Was close match in the shop ( but on a piece of paper)
    Yeh, my fault for trusting them, but can t be 100% unless you re spraying it on existing colour
    B*gger
    Rant over
  • goodall
    S2Forum Maniac
    • Jul 2008
    • 810
    • Country: Northern Ireland

    #2
    Seems everywhere is crap or inconsistent, at least local to me. The good body repair people mix there own paint

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    • Rusty
      Super Moderator
      • Jun 2004
      • 18953
      • Country: United Kingdom

      #3
      I had the same problem on an old golf, went back and demanded my money back, in the end I got an exchange, went through the stock colours, found one that was close and it matched perfectly
      Cheers'en, AndyC
      1994 ABY Coupe - Projekt Alpinweiss

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      • Ian Simmonds
        S2Forum Fiend
        • Jun 2005
        • 2858
        • Country: United Kingdom

        #4
        I popped into Halfords yesterday, they didn't have the car cleaning stuff I was looking for, but I did need a sponge, so, with £1.39 I walked towards the checkout. There were 17 people waiting to pay, one cashier and a dispute about a child seat refund.

        Abandoned sponge and left.
        85 WR Urquattro, 85 20vT International liveried RallyRep
        93 MTMS2 Avant

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        • Acidburn
          S2Forum Obsessed
          • Jun 2007
          • 13459
          • Country: United Kingdom

          #5
          I had to get some paint the other day to do the wheels for on my daily as the local place was shut, went in and asked to see the colour match books, me and aiden went thru them and selected a good few colours and got bored by the slow service and useless staff, I was either told that he couldn't mix the paint up for the selected colour as he's not allowed to (think it was something about lead content) or that he did not know how to, in the end he got that fed up/bored that he mixed the lamborgini colour I wanted doing in the first place.

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          • bluequattro
            S2Forum Fiend
            • Nov 2004
            • 2960
            • Country: United Kingdom

            #6
            Took paint back today. Spoke to dep manager.
            He says " did you give them the code?" Doh, never thought of that...
            Course I did.
            "So which one of the 5 colours did you have?"
            "What 5 colours, youff said only one."
            Manager shows me the computer, yep, 5 shades of Land Rover Niagra black to pick
            Youff had done the first (like black)
            Manager made me the light one n its a match
            Shame it took me another 2 hours to paint what I d already done yesterday!
            I ll be going elsewhere next time

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            • Acidburn
              S2Forum Obsessed
              • Jun 2007
              • 13459
              • Country: United Kingdom

              #7
              Yeah we went thru the paint code books as it was easier lol, picked a colour that was interesting and finally got them to make it.

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              • Le S2 Audi
                S2Forum Possessed
                • Jul 2009
                • 3805
                • Home: Scotland Current: England

                #8
                Originally posted by bluequattro
                Took paint back today. Spoke to dep manager.
                He says " did you give them the code?" Doh, never thought of that...
                Course I did.
                "So which one of the 5 colours did you have?"
                "What 5 colours, youff said only one."
                Manager shows me the computer, yep, 5 shades of Land Rover Niagra black to pick
                Youff had done the first (like black)
                Manager made me the light one n its a match
                Shame it took me another 2 hours to paint what I d already done yesterday!
                I ll be going elsewhere next time
                At least they sorted it...

                They could have just given you the 2 finger reply...

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