One year in the life of my Aston V8 Vantage Roadster
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I had decided to buy a V8 Vantage in autumn 2012, the plan was to buy one in spring 2013.
This car was advertised in Aug 2012 at Bentley Glasgow, but it was a couple of £K's to expensive for me, but I kept my eye on it.
If you recall the rain last autumn was horrendous and this car sat on their forecourt during this period.
Bentley Glasgow had overpriced the car and after 3 months they dropped the price by £3K.
The next day I went to view it and placed a deposit, part exchanging my Boxster S
I took delivery on 9/11/12 exactly 5 years to the day that the original one owner took delivery in Nov 2007
Here is a timeline of my years ownership and how the car started life with me and how it looks now
It has been a roller coaster.
In spring 2013 i was polishing the car and noticed some paint bubbles on the bottom corner of both doors.
The rear parking sensor mounts and rear grilles where also in poor condition and one of the chrome strakes was pitting
The car went into the AM approved body shop near Edinburgh for 2 weeks of facelift surgery.
Since the work to fix the doors involved a lot of strip down I decided to fit the AM Carbon fibre rear diffuser, CF front splitter and CF strakes.
New N400 sills also where part of the facelift
This is a timeline of the work
The AM body shop had forecast 2 weeks to complete the work, but after painting both sides they where not 100% happy with the exact colour match.
DuPont offered a different paint formula, but thus did not exactly match either, so the AM body shop agreed to paint the whole car at their time and expense.
Here is the car being finally polished after 4 weeks of work in the body shop
I had planned for replace the original alloys with newer ones next spring, but a brand new set of V8 Vantage S alloys complete with tyres became available 2 weeks ago at an AM dealer
The car was serviced and MOT'd last Friday at a local Indy, they fitted the new Vantage S alloys as well
This is how the car looks today after washing it
My years ownership has certainly been interesting and I really am delighted with how the car looks today considering it is now 6 years old.
There is not much more I can do to the exterior, I may consider clear rear lights to finish it off, but the red lights coordinate with the roof and callipers.
PS Apologies for the rusty discs after washing the car
This car was advertised in Aug 2012 at Bentley Glasgow, but it was a couple of £K's to expensive for me, but I kept my eye on it.
If you recall the rain last autumn was horrendous and this car sat on their forecourt during this period.
Bentley Glasgow had overpriced the car and after 3 months they dropped the price by £3K.
The next day I went to view it and placed a deposit, part exchanging my Boxster S
I took delivery on 9/11/12 exactly 5 years to the day that the original one owner took delivery in Nov 2007
Here is a timeline of my years ownership and how the car started life with me and how it looks now
It has been a roller coaster.
In spring 2013 i was polishing the car and noticed some paint bubbles on the bottom corner of both doors.
The rear parking sensor mounts and rear grilles where also in poor condition and one of the chrome strakes was pitting
The car went into the AM approved body shop near Edinburgh for 2 weeks of facelift surgery.
Since the work to fix the doors involved a lot of strip down I decided to fit the AM Carbon fibre rear diffuser, CF front splitter and CF strakes.
New N400 sills also where part of the facelift
This is a timeline of the work
The AM body shop had forecast 2 weeks to complete the work, but after painting both sides they where not 100% happy with the exact colour match.
DuPont offered a different paint formula, but thus did not exactly match either, so the AM body shop agreed to paint the whole car at their time and expense.
Here is the car being finally polished after 4 weeks of work in the body shop
I had planned for replace the original alloys with newer ones next spring, but a brand new set of V8 Vantage S alloys complete with tyres became available 2 weeks ago at an AM dealer
The car was serviced and MOT'd last Friday at a local Indy, they fitted the new Vantage S alloys as well
This is how the car looks today after washing it
My years ownership has certainly been interesting and I really am delighted with how the car looks today considering it is now 6 years old.
There is not much more I can do to the exterior, I may consider clear rear lights to finish it off, but the red lights coordinate with the roof and callipers.
PS Apologies for the rusty discs after washing the car
and yours is stunning albeit a little challenged in the cylinder department 
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