Selling help please

[sukh_m]

manjuice said:

It's so pretty, nicer place to sit, and sounds like thunder

Very true

Just on a side note, what on earth possessed you to choose a username on PH such as "manjuice"? Just wanted the theory behind it

[Jockman]

Plus...no posts in 5 years !!!

Good luck with the pregnancy - how far gone are you ????

[Neil1300R]

gibbon said:

Sounds like there may be some clutch disc material or manufacture variance then I imagine.

Did the shorten the reverse gear in later models out of interest?

Sorry to hijack thread.

they have on the S.

[manjuice]

5 months and apparently a rapide is not an appropriate family car .... Yet

Man juice ..... Seemed a good idea at the time

[Speculatore]

manjuice said:

5 months and apparently a rapide is not an appropriate family car .... Yet

Man juice ..... Seemed a good idea at the time

Its very easy to change in your profile.... You could go Chinese and have 'Creem of Sum Yung Guy'

[Jockman]

Joke of the year...so far

[manjuice]

Hmm I should change it ... I don't want to have manjuice stuck to me

[sukh_m]

manjuice said:

Hmm I should change it ... I don't want to have manjuice stuck to me

Are you referencing your own manjuice or somebody else's? Just out of curiosity of course

[Beoon]

Speculatore said:

Its very easy to change in your profile.... You could go Chinese and have 'Creem of Sum Yung Guy'

That joke is older than the clutch in my V8VR

[mikey k]

Mr Aston Martin said:

gibbon said:

Sounds like there may be some clutch disc material or manufacture variance then I imagine.

Did the shorten the reverse gear in later models out of interest?

Sorry to hijack thread.

The reverse gear has a high ratio hence the smell of burning when reversing uphill which will do little to promote cluth life. I hdont know if this has been resolved with the S coming out.

ASM2 cars (S & MY12.25 vantage onwards) have a lower ratio (closer to 1st) but the manuals still have the high gear reverse

Edited by mikey k on Tuesday 9th April 18:13

[josh bear]

Jockman said:

Did you agree with this diagnosis, Josh?

Hi. Just to bring this all away from the topic of man juice.

Had no choice really the dealer wasn't interested in helping and even went to AM HQ same answer. Fair wear and tear. Eventually cost the dealer though both the next vantage and then the db9 I bought from somewhere else

Josh

[steveatesh]

manjuice said:

The easiest fix is to buy a Porsche

Well this has been going through my head a lot recently. I love the vantage but am fed up to the back teeth with the frequency of issues I've experienced, Yes they have all been fairly minor in nature ( the usual known issues, some now repeating) and fixed under warranty, BUT it drains you arranging to have them fixed and takes the shine off ownership. I didn't go longer than two month without an issue in the first three years and that pattern has continued.

Just a month out of warranty a tyre pressure sensor went and now the external temperature sender has gone ( again), and a door handle paint issue repaired under warranty is showing signs of repeating. Every time I use it I wonder if anything else is going to go wrong. I know the clutch is upstream, something I've never worried about on any other car.

I am, at this moment very tempted by the Dark Side, not least of which is because of the build quality of my wife's new Boxster PDK.