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bastynitch:
I got a real bargain for my cheek at the car boot sale, this last weekend- asked a bloke -  five quid for a whole box spanners  etc,

 and he handed them over to me !!! :dance:

Mark_Solesbury:
Halfords Professional 150 kit.

£90 - ive got one in the truck, and one in the toolbox in the garage.

Lifetime warranty is worth the extra £20.

Saffy:

--- Quote from: Mark_Solesbury on September 11, 2009, 07:26:45 ---Halfords Professional 150 kit.

£90 - ive got one in the truck, and one in the toolbox in the garage.

Lifetime warranty is worth the extra £20.

--- End quote ---
That's more of just a socket/spanner set, it's currently a good offer price though. I do have a full roebuck 1/2inch socket set, 1/4 inch britool, and set of halifords professional rachett spanners as well as all the other combination spanners and oddball sockets I have collected over the years.
 I want a  kit solely for the truck as an 'away from home' back up that might aid in a variety of simple repairs on the odd occasion. Only things I can think off that I probably will want to add would be wheel bearing nut box spanner, decent tooling for propshaft removal and a filter strap ... LOL I can go on adding stuff and just end up where I started and makes me wonder if an off the shelf set piece kit has any real use at all  :roll:
This is on offer at moment:
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_165418_langId_-1_categoryId_165572
Like Halifords, this thing varies at price with the wind from 120 to 250
http://www.kamasa.co.uk/item.aspx?item=2460&cat=467

Disco Matt:
Keep an eye on ebay for older tools as Carbore suggests - I keep finding single King Dick spanners on there for a couple of quid each. I'd have thought a slightly grubby tool roll of old spanners is a lot less likely to go walkies than a shiny new kit, and you can build a vehicle-specific kit.

Saffy:
Decided to build one up myself as it probably more fun and can vary the quality as needed.
The mrs brought home a couple of those padded suitcase camera boxes thing as freebie from work few weeks back so will be using one of them as the tool box.
I've fished out a handful of combination Metric spanners from my junkboxes (mostly Britool) will need still to collect some of the missing sizes though.
Have included a couple 9/16th and 1/2inch AF spanners.
Found my original Roebuck socket wrench but will need to collect up some 1/2 inch sockets from ebay/bootsales (will see what the Ross on wye bootsale has tomorrow :smiley:)
Already got a spare ball hammer, Stanley blade, head torch.

Went to MoleValley farm supplies today and spent a grand total of 42 quid on a Screwdriver and screwdriver bit set, 1/4inch metric and AF socket set (5mm to 13mm and 3/16 to 1/2inch sure some sizes are doubled there!). 3 piece Plier set (snips/engineers/long nose). A four jaw circlip plier set. Half round File with handle. Full sized (and quite decent) hacksaw. 3/4 by 8 inch cold chisel. 30mm adjustable spanner. Various brands, pliers and screwdrivers are Draper :shock:
So still looking for range of sockets, t-bar, extension, some spanner (haven't figured what sizes are missing yet). Decent pair of scissors. Metric/imperial hex keys.

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