Founded as a local hardware store in Birmingham in 1892 by F W Rushbrooke, Halfords has since grown to establish its position as the leading retailer of car parts, car enhancement, cycles and travel solutions in the UK.

A random selection of reviews taken about this merchant. PLEASE NOTE: These are invidual opinions, and not our own experiences.

• 07/09/2011
  1 out of 5

  Title says it all. Spent £850 on a Boardman bike, which was so appallingly set up by Haflords staff, had to take it back to the store 3 times in the first week. It was last straw when the pedal came off when I was out on it, which was just plain dangerous. Turns out it had too many spacers on it,, which had completely wrecked the pedal, and the end nut had been cross threaded. Nice one Halfords, way to screw over what would have been a nice bike. Got a refund and I'm heading to my local bike shop,..

• 07/07/2011
  1 out of 5

  took my bike to halfords as the gears needed a tweak ... the "bike hut" is up 2 flights of stairs, clever, and, after dragging my machine up to the counter I was ignored by the ONE member of staff on duty for about 20 minutes while he failed to sell a bike to a couple of punters. Eventually I inquired as to whether there was anyone else on duty at which point another member of staff mircaulously materialised. However, he didn't even look at the bike, telling me that there is a 3 week waiting list..