Products: Halfords Advanced Professional 200-piece socket set review

• Rating ★★★★☆
• Price £150 (until June 5)
• Buy one at Halfords

FOR THOSE who like nothing better than to spend their bank holiday hiding away in a garage, servicing a classic car or bringing a tired lawnmower back to life, Halfords has an offer to ratchet up the excitement. Its Advanced socket sets are half-price until June 5, 2016.

We put the Halfords Advanced Professional 200-piece socket and spanner kit to the test. It’s a beast of a set, in a sturdy plastic case with a moulded lining that holds all the bits and pieces firmly in place.

The exhaustive list of sockets, ratchets, spanners and bit attachments reads like a Screwfix stock list. From drive ratchet handles to ratchet spanners, shank bits to sockets, Allen keys to Allen wrenches, this comprehensive collection is the biggest in the Halfords Advanced range.

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Made from chrome vanadium steel, the components have impressive quality and feel, and Halfords backs up the set with a lifetime warranty. The ratchets have a good action, and the range of adaptors, such as 10mm and 14mm spark plug sockets, will include the right tool for anyone with a car, bike or lawnmower to fix up.

There are smaller, cheaper kits available, but with the half-price offer, this set should set up most amateur mechanics for a lifetime for just £150.