Which Vantage S Wheel design?

[Titan the Robot]

I've never seen a V12 Vantage with those wheels before. I thought they just looked like the one in this picture.

[IanV12VR]

Titan the Robot said:

I've never seen a V12 Vantage with those wheels before. I thought they just looked like the one in this picture.

The red car has V12VR winter alloys. For some reason AML recommend different alloys for the coupe and the roadster. Can't explain and don't understand.

[DUMBO100]

gloss black innards look nice but are a bugger to keep clean, so buy a domestic pressure washer too or your wheels will look like dusty black blobs

[Titan the Robot]

Im just going through the rigmarole of fitting V12 wheels to my V8 vantage. To tell you the truth no one on this forum has gone through and come up with a proper solution to fit them but I'm getting there. It's all to do with the offset and experimenting with wheel spacers. Watch this space!


quote=Titan the Robot]I've never seen a V12 Vantage with those wheels before. I thought they just looked like the one in this picture.
[/quote]

[Zod]

Jonsv8 said:

Zod said:

A in anthracite is the V12V winter wheel.

but seemingly not on the V12VS.. this is Aston Martins own car.. and looks awful to my eye

No, they changed it, but you could still order the V12V version.

[Vee12V]

Wheel A, a bit more elegant.

[Zod]

Titan the Robot said:

I've never seen a V12 Vantage with those wheels before. I thought they just looked like the one in this picture.

Those atre summer. The others are winter,

[Grant3]

Clearly it's a matter of personal taste, what I would say is the V-Spoke design looks much better in the flesh than in photos, and they do better fill the wheel arches and balance the wide V8S sills rather more than the slender lightweights, both look better with a diamond turned finish (graphite or black inner IMO).

If you are looking for a new set, don't forget A.M. have just launched a new cheaper "Lightning" wheel, which sort of sits between the two..... see here
http://www.astonmartin.com/en/accessories/v8-vanta...

There will also be a new standard alloy wheel unveiled for the 16 MY so may be worth waiting to upgrade.

With regards to the V12 alloys, I don't understand why you would want to ruin a sports cars dynamics (affecting the cars balance/grip level, tyres fouling arches and suspension affecting press-on handling, etc) just to make your car look like a more expensive model. The fact is the V12 has considerable modifications to allow the wider tyres to fit and A.M. do not recommend fitting V12 alloys to V8 and there is a great range of V8 wheels to choose from with more coming soon