Is it Halfords fault?

philstar

Should we blame Halfords for the increase in the boy-racer culture in this country??
If anything they seem to promote it.

Anytime i go in there, theres nearly always a gang of them inside drooling over the chrome exhausts on display, and another gang near the entrance showing off their supped up starlet:rolleyes:

Eoin

I don't think they pre-dated the modding scene, they just reacted to an opening in the market. And there's a difference between boy racers and people who mod their cars (though there's obviously an overlap).

EPM

No, but I'd blame them anyway:D

But just because they take a bit of pride in their car doesn't automatically mean they are a menace. To be honest I've seen more souped up cars driven carefully and within the law than driven badly

biko

Blame England, isn't that were the boyracer thing started? Then it slowly crept over to Dublin with the help of Pimp My Ride UK and from there to the midlands.

hobochris

philstar wrote: »

Should we blame Halfords for the increase in the boy-racer culture in this country??

Anytime i go in there, theres nearly always a gang of them inside drooling over the chrome exhausts on display, and another gang near the entrance showing off their supped up starlet:rolleyes:

Your saying they(a business) are at fault for try to make money off of a lucrative market ???

the mind boggles, last time I checked:

business make profit != illegal.

They'd be Boy racers with of without the existence of Halfords , Halfords are just in the right place and right time to make money from them.

Abelloid

Magnus wrote: »

Blame England, isn't that were the boyracer thing started? Then it slowly crept over to Dublin with the help of Pimp My Ride UK and from there to the midlands.

I blame Henry Ford, isn't that where the car thing started?

Stevie Dakota

JustinOval wrote: »

I blame Henry Ford, isn't that where the car thing started?

No, it was them cavemen tinkering with the idea of the wheel, bloody neanderthal racers!

mondeo

Alot of mod stuff in halfords has little labels stating that their not suitable for road use....particulary led bulbs and typical stuff like that. They have to protect themselves incase some young lad comes back and blames halfords for selling it to them in the first place
after a garda gives them stick over it.

DJ Hafez

I blame Donegal :P

Cookie_Monster

Pimp my Ride has a lot to answer for

smash

Magnus wrote: »

Blame England, isn't that were the boyracer thing started? Then it slowly crept over to Dublin with the help of Pimp My Ride UK and from there to the midlands.

Yea, because guys never modified or raced their cars in Detroit about 40-50 years ago....

If you want to blame someone, blame max power!

Eoin

steve06 wrote: »

If you want to blame someone, blame max power!

quarryman

philstar wrote: »

Anytime i go in there

pot, kettle, me thinks.

Twin-go

Your right - and Pennys and JJB Sports are at fault for bringing the "chav" culture over to our scumbags........

bazz26

Halford's like any businesses identified a gap market and filled it to some extent. Some people might see that as good business sense. Also they don't just sell modified products btw.

What next? Blame McDonald's for being obese or Heineken for being an alcoholic? Nobody puts a gun to your head and makes you buy these products.

StuartC

Fair play to em, its a business and they are reaping the market who want souped up motors. Sh*t looking things though.

andr3w103

dont blame halfords...blame gob****es who think there class drivers with class cars ...... d power of ownin a car goes 2 dere head .......d ba5tards have insurance 4 young males twice as much as for females .... .4000 for a clio 2 for a girl

--Kaiser--

Yes, it's Halfords fault

/thread

Tefral

I run a modified car website and the vast majority of car enthusiasts wouldn’t be putting a halford backbox on their car let me tell you that....

Anything bought in halfords bar, tools, batteries, manuals, paint, head units. is all boyracer tat.

To be honest anyway, you'd want your head examined for buying anything in there unless you were stuck after the motor factors close; they are nicknamed "halfrauds" for a reason. They are too over priced.

Would like to point out though that modifying culture predated max power, pimp my ride, and all that other crap anyway so they all jumped on the bandwagon.

if your looking for somewhere to point the finger, blame the celtic tiger and blame irresponsible parents for buying their kids cars and then letting them tart up the car like idiots.

Real enthusiasts spend mega money on importing parts from Japan from sites like RHDjapan and Nengun or auctions etc or getting real custom parts from the likes of Irmsher for the euro models etc.

The vast majority of Irish people are small minded bigots who just like to rant about something and the flavour of the month (for the last few years) is modified car owners. The real idiots are few and far between amongst us; unfortunately they are the ones with the loud exhausts and idiotic behaviour and thus get noticed more.

In any case, I do massive mileage up and down the country and middle aged men and women with 5 kids in a jeep tend to act more irresponsibly on the road, indicators and the concept of using a mobile phone while driving are foreign concepts to them. Id rather listen to a cheap halfords exhaust then be wrote off by a 50 year old merc driver talking to his clients about slippers and brown envelopes.

Eoin

andr3w103 wrote: »

dont blame halfords...blame gob****es who think there class drivers with class cars ...... d power of ownin a car goes 2 dere head .......d ba5tards have insurance 4 young males twice as much as for females .... .4000 for a clio 2 for a girl

Less of the txtspk please.

zero19

Halfords stuff is absolute over priced dirt, you'd have to be clueless to buy your shi'te chrome license plate surround from them anyway...

andr3w103

i agree motor factors ar way cheaper and better ... but most the boy racers i no and see have spent thousands (not from halfords) on there sh1theaps and its retarded and somtimes they get there hands on exellent modern classics and absoulutly destroy them .... ive seen too many bmw 325s with huge spiolers and ridiculus fukin m badges THEY ARENT M3'S ....and twincams they love raping them....along with other cars ........and galanzas ar pieces of sh1te..........and car enthusiasts dont ruin their cars with aftermarket parts from japan

andr3w103

eoin wrote: »

Less of the txtspk please.

whats txtspk?

fryup

cronin_j wrote: »

unfortunately they are the ones with the loud exhausts and idiotic behaviour and thus get noticed more.

yes, and they're on the increase..i call them...

The Black Bonnet Brigade

Eoin

andr3w103 wrote: »

whats txtspk?

Text speak.

andr3w103

cronin_j wrote: »

In any case, I do massive mileage up and down the country and middle aged men and women with 5 kids in a jeep tend to act more irresponsibly on the road, indicators and the concept of using a mobile phone while driving are foreign concepts to them. Id rather listen to a cheap halfords exhaust then be wrote off by a 50 year old merc driver talking to his clients about slippers and brown envelopes.

boy racers/modified car owners are some of the worst drivers on the road its them bast'ards fault ill have to pay 4000 to insure my car wen a girl of the same age will have 2 pay 2000...and yes there are rich docters and soliciters and such that buy stupid suvs or mercs cas there show off snobs......and boy racers are show offs aswell

andr3w103

eoin wrote: »

Text speak.

so ur tellin me not 2 reply so much??

Atomic Pineapple

andr3w103 wrote: »

so ur tellin me not 2 reply so much??

no he's saying type your instead of ur

Anan1

andr3w103 wrote: »

so ur tellin me not 2 reply so much??

We don't expect perfect spelling here, but please make a bit of an effort - your posts so far have been quite hard to read.

Gumbo

andr3w103 wrote: »

i agree motor factors ar way cheaper and better ... but most the boy racers i no and see have spent thousands (not from halfords) on there sh1theaps and its retarded and somtimes they get there hands on exellent modern classics and absoulutly destroy them .... ive seen too many bmw 325s with huge spiolers and ridiculus fukin m badges THEY ARENT M3'S ....and twincams they love raping them....along with other cars ........and galanzas ar pieces of sh1te..........and car enthusiasts dont ruin their cars with aftermarket parts from japan

you do know that M badges are for non m cars too, like M-Sport vesrions. are you sure it was M3 badges they were putting on?

andr3w103 wrote: »

boy racers/modified car owners are some of the worst drivers on the road its them bast'ards fault ill have to pay 4000 to insure my car wen a girl of the same age will have 2 pay 2000...and yes there are rich docters and soliciters and such that buy stupid suvs or mercs cas there show off snobs......and boy racers are show offs aswell

are you sure you were quoted 4k for clio insurance? i havent heard of anybody paying that much for such a small car in years.

cpoh1

andr3w103 wrote: »

so ur tellin me not 2 reply so much??

I think he's telling you to at least finish school and learn to type and spell before coming on here.

TTYL m8

Tefral

andr3w103 wrote: »

boy racers/modified car owners are some of the worst drivers on the road its them bast'ards fault ill have to pay 4000 to insure my car wen a girl of the same age will have 2 pay 2000...and yes there are rich docters and soliciters and such that buy stupid suvs or mercs cas there show off snobs......and boy racers are show offs aswell

That has nothing to do with boy racers. In any case if your goin to continue to rant about your insurance in such an off topic fashion please leave this thread and start one in the ranting and raving forum.

Seth Brundle

There was no car modding in this country until this came along
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=603

kdevitt

It was actually Ripspeed who supplied all the aftermarket goodies, Halfords bought them out - think you'll still see Ripspeed branding in parts of the stores.

Halfords do some great deals - especially the 3 for 2 offers on cleaning goods, and some of their tools are excellent. The main fault is that some of the staff aren't exactly a wealth of motoring knowledge, but some of them are fine and helpful.

They've had a great impact as far as I'm concerned - and I'm beyond being a boy racer at this stage. Almost no motor factors opened past 12 on a Saturday for years, and forget about a Sunday - at least they're open 7 days a week.

dutchcat

i love halfords got me out of a hole many a time,couple of quid in the difference but where will u find a factors open on sat evening or sun? and no i don't work there

JohnThomas09

philstar wrote: »

Should we blame Halfords for the increase in the boy-racer culture in this country??
If anything they seem to promote it.

Anytime i go in there, theres nearly always a gang of them inside drooling over the chrome exhausts on display, and another gang near the entrance showing off their supped up starlet:rolleyes:

Thats like saying that the Premiership teams are too blame for underage drinking,just because kids see the likes of Steven Gerrard wearing a jersey with Carlsberg on it doesnt mean he going to go and get himself a Carlsberg.

smash

JohnThomas09 wrote: »

Thats like saying that the Premiership teams are too blame for underage drinking,just because kids see the likes of Steven Gerrard wearing a jersey with Carlsberg on it doesnt mean he going to go and get himself a Carlsberg.

yea, or formula1 teams were to blame for smoking!

JohnThomas09

steve06 wrote: »

yea, or formula1 teams were to blame for smoking!

next we'll be blamimg our Lord for nudity because he was wearing for little up on the cross.:D

EPM

Ah come on so and we'll get a gang together and go down there to protest. Try and get the RSA involved too. Auntie Gaybo will have a field day:D

bazz26

Atomic Pineapple

kbannon wrote: »

There was no car modding in this country until this came along
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=603

:D:D

Fey!

andr3w103 wrote: »

boy racers/modified car owners are some of the worst drivers on the road its them bast'ards fault ill have to pay 4000 to insure my car wen a girl of the same age will have 2 pay 2000...

That doesn't quite tie in with what you said in this thread here...

ANDR3W103 wrote:

.....im 14 and ive driven on the road many times and im a better driver than alot of people i know with a licence.....

EPM

bazz26 wrote: »

Was waiting for that:D

--Kaiser--

Fey! wrote: »

That doesn't quite tie in with what you said in this thread here...

owned

DJ Hafez

Halfords/Ripspeed paid my wages for quite a while :P Thankfully I just worked with Sat-Navs most of the days though

ronnie3585

Fey! wrote: »

That doesn't quite tie in with what you said in this thread here...

ronnie3585

This made me larf, very accurate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUxqoOjmy0

Yakult

Fey! wrote: »

That doesn't quite tie in with what you said in this thread here...

made my day

andr3w103

Fey! wrote: »

That doesn't quite tie in with what you said in this thread here...

and dat doesnt tie in why?

andr3w103

Fey! wrote: »

That doesn't quite tie in with what you said in this thread here...

IN 3 YEARS I WILL U ****ING DOWNSYNDROME, HENCE ME WRITING I'LL AS IN I WILL HAVE TO IN THE FUTURE

zero19

Not really though