Car Maintenance

Whether your employees drive Electric, Hybrid, Petrol or Diesel, you can make motoring safer and car maintenance more affordable for them and their families with our Car Maintenance Scheme.

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Why offer Car Maintenance?

Take the stress out of maintaining a car & unlock great savings!

From MOTs, servicing, repairs and tyre replacements, looking after your car can be a stressful and expensive task. With our Scheme, your employees can access our trusted network, save up to 12% and spread the cost over a 12-month period.

Choice

  1. Can be used on all same household vehicles increase savings
  2. Trusted garage, store & mobile experts network
  3. Can be used on multiple types of repairs
  4. The amount of employees can apply is flexible

Value

  1. Access to Halfords sales & promotional prices
  2. Savings of up to 60% off main dealer prices
  3. Free, unlimited safety check
  4. All work comes with Halfords guarantee

Service

  1. Effortless admin
  2. Instant certificate dispatch
  3. Protection against early leavers
  4. Experts on hand to support you every step of the way

12%

Employee savings

Maximum savings with no hidden fees

60% OFF

Main dealer prices

Access up to 60% off main dealer prices

1200

Stores, garages & mobile expert vans

Employees can access our nationwide network

102K+

5-star reviews

Excellent Trustpilot rating on Autocentres

What makes Car Maintenance unique?

It’s a UK first

Our innovative Car Maintenance Scheme is specifically designed for employees who own a vehicle and commute by car.

In addition to free of charge marketing and free events to engage and excite your employees we offer:

  • Employee inclusivity

    Solutions to make the Scheme available to all employees, including those who are on National Minimum/Living Wage.

  • Scheme protection

    Halfords covers the deficit from early leavers meaning your business won’t be out of pocket.

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  • Scheme management

    Our experts provide you with insight and data to measure the return on investment of your scheme and highlight ways to continuously improve it.

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What can it do for my business?

Energise and inspire your workforce

Our Car Maintenance Salary Sacrifice scheme is unique to market. It’s easy to implement and achieves fantastic results for your employees and their families.

It’s a win-win employee benefit.

  • Resonates with workforce

    This benefit will resonate with a large percentage of your workforce who commute by car

  • Employee wellbeing

    Improve attendance, productivity, and your employee’s financial and mental wellbeing

  • Corporate benefits

    Enhances your corporate benefits package to attract and retain employees.

  • Green initiatives

    Support company green initiatives – a well-maintained vehicle produces reduced CO2 emissions

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Join other businesses like yours making motoring safer and car maintenance more affordable.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know.

Salary Sacrifice is where an employee agrees to forego part of their pre-tax salary in exchange for a benefit from their employer, in this case for the purposes of car maintenance. Since a portion of the salary is foregone, the employee does not pay National Insurance on the amount sacrificed.

You can determine a set period of time up to 12 months for the deductions to be taken from the employees’ salary.

The employee will make savings through National Insurance, a basic rate taxpayer will save 12% and a higher rate taxpayer 2%.

On all of the marketing and on the benefits portal, it will direct employees to the Halfords Autocentre website where they will be able to enter in their car vehicle registration where it will then detail all the costs involved for such things as servicing, mot and tyre replacement.

Employees will have access to hundreds of Halfords Autocentres and stores throughout the UK. On both the Halfords Autocentre website and the benefits portal employees will have access to a garage and store locator whereby they are able to enter their postcode to see garages within their local area.

Absolutely, we want your employees to get the best value meaning they can take advantage of any promotional prices on offer.

Once the employee has submitted their application all we require from the employer is for the eligibility checks to be carried out, this is to ensure they have met the criteria stipulated by the employer to enrol onto the benefit. Once we are in receipt of the approval, we will issue the Letter of Redemption the employee electronically within one working hour.

Here at Halfords, we want to get the Letters of Redemption out to employees as soon as possible and will offer you retrospective invoicing on a 30-day account basis (subject to credit check). See below a working example of how an invoice will be raised: – 5 employees joined in the month of September each selecting £200 meaning one invoice will be raised at the end of the month for £1000 and sent to the employer for payment.

Yes, the provision of car maintenance is a taxable Benefit In Kind (BIK) that needs to be reported to HMRC on a P11D benefits form at the end of the tax year.

Yes, if initial outlay is of concern, then we do offer scheme funding options meaning the payments can be spread aligned with the deductions taken from employees. Please note that there will be a small charge if employer’s wish to take out scheme funding. If this is of interest, please contact your consultant for more information.

The Car Maintenance Scheme can be facilitated through a net deduction arrangement. Employees will not be able to avail of any NI savings, but the key benefit is that the payments can be spread over a 12-month period making them manageable and more affordable for employees.

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