106k miles DB9 how scared should I be?

[hashluck]

I mean the good news is you have the very definition of 'no expense spared' servicing. All too often these cars fall into the hand of someone who cannot afford the upkeep and things are skimped on whereas this seems the exact opposite.

[V8V Pete]

kippax said:

cayman-black said:

Seems excessive to me too.

If pads were more than 50% worn he asked for them to be replaced so that he didn't have to bring in again before next service.

If he wanted to throw money away he'd have been better off giving it to charity and paying the butler £50 to take it to have its pads (tyres, discs etc etc.) changed at a local Indy when they actually needed doing. There's "Full Service History" and there's being utterly fleeced by the Dealer. Don't get me wrong OP, you've got a great car out of this but please ……..

[kippax]

V8V Pete said:

If he wanted to throw money away he'd have been better off giving it to charity and paying the butler £50 to take it to have its pads (tyres, discs etc etc.) changed at a local Indy when they actually needed doing. There's "Full Service History" and there's being utterly fleeced by the Dealer. Don't get me wrong OP, you've got a great car out of this but please ……..

Absolutely I agree but if money is no object then I suppose why not.

I should probably add that this was just his daily driver he has numerous other cars for "fun"

[northernmedia]

I'm quite liking the previous owner

[AMDBSNick]

Consider yourself very lucky that the previous owner had all the "advisory" work done as well as the routine stuff. Many don't and simply want the stamp

[kippax]

AMDBSNick said:

Consider yourself very lucky that the previous owner had all the "advisory" work done as well as the routine stuff. Many don't and simply want the stamp

Absolutely looking through all the invoices (I only listed large works) everything that was suggested or indeed remarked as may need in future was done straight away.

Example being "slight corrosion on mirror replacement requested rather than repair"

[mrpseudonym]

Does this guy have any other cars he wants to sell?

[kippax]

mrpseudonym said:

Does this guy have any other cars he wants to sell?

Just look out for a high mileage Veyron in the future ;)

[krisdelta]

Jon39 said:

kippax said:

Roll bars deployed & went through window / roof

Roof replaced & roll bars reset all under warranty.

I can recall a photo on this forum of a DB9 Volante with roll hoops through the rear window.

Don't think the car was your colour though.

That was at a Goodwood Supercar Sunday last year IIRC (I saw it myself).

[kippax]

AMDBSNick said:

Consider yourself very lucky that the previous owner had all the "advisory" work done as well as the routine stuff. Many don't and simply want the stamp

Absolutely looking through all the invoices (I only listed large works) everything that was suggested or indeed remarked as may need in future was done straight away.

Example being "slight corrosion on mirror replacement requested rather than repair"

[BravoV8V]

kippax said:

Absolutely I agree but if money is no object then I suppose why not.

I should probably add that this was just his daily driver he has numerous other cars for "fun"

Over £37k in maintenance in 8 years? That is verging into 'more money than sense' territory.

I bet he also bought all of his tyres from the dealer too...

[kippax]

BravoV8V said:

Over £37k in maintenance in 8 years? That is verging into 'more money than sense' territory.

I bet he also bought all of his tyres from the dealer too...

Yep see list tyres were also replaced if they had less than 10k miles left in them.

[GTDB7]

Will you be bringing it to PSCM on Sunday at Preston?

Be nice to have a look over it, also I was at Gaydon last week and I spoke to them about the deployable roll bars to which I got a good answer. So I'll tell you a little about that.

[kippax]

GTDB7 said:

Will you be bringing it to PSCM on Sunday at Preston?

Be nice to have a look over it, also I was at Gaydon last week and I spoke to them about the deployable roll bars to which I got a good answer. So I'll tell you a little about that.

No sorry I'm busy this weekend.

[g18]

Hi Howard how's the new addition going!

[kippax]

Fantastic it's an amazing car.

Only small niggle is that I get low coolant level warning when accelerating hard despite level being fine. They have swapped over the sender but still the same.

If anything the coolant looks overfilled anyone any ideas?

[Murph7355]

Why did the roll hoops deploy?

Brakes, discs and tyres look nuts to me too.

Those two items to me would have made me very wary....but I guess some people could just do daft things at service time.

[kippax]

Murph7355 said:

Why did the roll hoops deploy?

Brakes, discs and tyres look nuts to me too.

Those two items to me would have made me very wary....but I guess some people could just do daft things at service time.

Went over hump bridge too fast & suspension travel went too far causing deployment although car didn't take off.

He refused roof repair & had full replacement.

[JiggyJaggy]

Still waiting for some photos of this stunning car!

[kippax]

JiggyJaggy said:

Still waiting for some photos of this stunning car!

They were on link earlier in thread see below