Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Stan_2 on 28 October 2011, 20:39:25
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Has anyone used Halfords Autocentre for a diagnostic check?
If so what did you think of them?
Or heard anything to put you off using them?
They charge £50 for a diagnostic check, is that reasonable?
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Vaux dealer would be cheaper i think! :o
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buy your own reader! :y
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I use a paperclip myself. ???
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i got charged £60 to get the codes read just on my auto box from a vx dealer when i broke down in cornwall :( :o
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halfords autocentres, formally nationwide autocentres, will tempt you in with cheap quotes that grow massively once there. Avoid at all costs
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Agree with The Boy they are absolute Clown Shoes. Put a terd in a frilly dress , its still a terd !
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Ha Ha agree!!!!! ;D ;D
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Thanks for the replies, I was only going to use them because they were convenient, only about 4 miles away. I’ll forget about halfords now after what TB said.
Looks like I’ll have to wait for a bit until I can book it in at the stealers.
If I could do the paperclip check I’d make a right pigs ear of it, I'd be like Del's brother, Rodney, a right plonker ;D
The airbag light is on all of the time, that doesn’t bother me at all.
It’s the emissions light on 80% of the time that’s bugging me, I don’t know if I’m making things worse while driving it.
they are absolute Clown Shoes. Put a terd in a frilly dress , its still a terd !
I like that, must try to remember it. ;D
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The paperclip trick is very easy!! ;) Even I can do it!! :D :y There's a 'how to' in the maintenance section. Why not give it a try? It's free!!! :y
There's also a list of codes somewhere here as well that will point you in the right direction or post up the codes and hopefully someone will tell you whats going on!! ::) 8)
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No!
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Hi mate, here's the link for the paperclip test and as said before, very easy to do :y
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90581.0
HTH's
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As has been said, try the paperclip test then post up the codes it flashes out. Nothing to lose and it could save you your £50.
Failing that, you could take a jaunt down the M3 and I'll take a look with the Tech 2. I'm often around the J4a area so we could meet up somewhere there.
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I’ve just had a look at the paperclip link, thanks.
I’ll have a go at the paperclip test next week, I’m don’t feel very confident about getting the codes. I’ll have a go tho.
Thanks again everyone :y
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Halfords....by all means go there and then you give us all a laugh when they make a B of it. They are a shop for accesorries and not mechies. However you dress a monkey it is still a monkey.
Find an oofer living locally with the gear to do it or buy a code reader cos they are cheap enough unless you want the full Tech2 job.
I bought a code reader to save the cost of the dealer stealers and it performs as it should each time I plug it in.
The problem is I very rarely have any codes flash up! ;D
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Halfords....by all means go there and then you give us all a laugh when they make a B of it. They are a shop for accesorries and not mechies. However you dress a monkey it is still a monkey.
Find an oofer living locally with the gear to do it or buy a code reader cos they are cheap enough unless you want the full Tech2 job.
I bought a code reader to save the cost of the dealer stealers and it performs as it should each time I plug it in.
The problem is I very rarely have any codes flash up! ;D
Sods bloody law that ::)
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Halfords....by all means go there and then you give us all a laugh when they make a B of it. They are a shop for accesorries and not mechies. However you dress a monkey it is still a monkey.
Find an oofer living locally with the gear to do it or buy a code reader cos they are cheap enough unless you want the full Tech2 job.
I bought a code reader to save the cost of the dealer stealers and it performs as it should each time I plug it in.
The problem is I very rarely have any codes flash up! ;D
They are nothing to do with Halfords, other than name
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:y I know that but I have had personal experience with them before I knew DLK. In my view they rely too much on tech and not enough on practical hands on experience. I dare even go so far as to think of them as pretendy mechanics.
There again in desperate need its any port in a storm so the saying goes........ ;D
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Unliklely a reader will work as it's a 2000 model, usually only 2001 onwards so would we be talking pedal trick in as it has an emmision light i.e facelift?
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:y I know that but I have had personal experience with them before I knew DLK. In my view they rely too much on tech and not enough on practical hands on experience. I dare even go so far as to think of them as pretendy mechanics.
There again in desperate need its any port in a storm so the saying goes........ ;D
This is true of a large chunk of the motor repair industry, IMHO. A code reader is no use whatsoever to someone who doesn't know in detail how the system they are diagnosing works. They will assume that every fault code diagnoses a faulty component and so the process of replacing good parts at random begins...