ASTON MARTIN RECALLS

[rango am]

An article i found whilst searching online it may be complete BS but better to be safe than sorry.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/aston-m...

[Ed50]

So what your saying now Rango is that I can expect something else to fall off shortly......................great joy.

[rango am]

More articles on it here:

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/06/12/aston-martin-re...
Read more: http://www.automobilemag.com/am/99/2013/aston_mart...

In summary for those who do not have time to read the articles:
Aston Martin is recalling certain model year DB9, Virage, V8 Vantage, V12 Vantage, and Rapide vehicles manufactured from May 14, 2012, through April 10, 2013. Due to a manufacturing error, the throttle pedal arm may break.

For give me if this has already been posted before, i just thought it to be useful info to anyone looking to purchase a used AM to check to make sure the work had been carried out.

[rango am]

Ed50 said:

So what your saying now Rango is that I can expect something else to fall off shortly......................great joy.

Depending on the date your car came off the production line, quite possibly

More fuel for the quality control argument

[Ed50]

rango am said:

Depending on the date your car came off the production line, quite possibly

More fuel for the quality control argument

27TH MARCH 2013, you do the research Clouseau it'll keep you occupied this evening.

[V12woollie]

This was in a thread around June time. I think many of the affected VINS were in the US and a few people in the UK had the update. My car wasn't affected even though an April build.

[rango am]

V12woollie said:

This was in a thread around June time. I think many of the affected VINS were in the US and a few people in the UK had the update. My car wasn't affected even though an April build.

One would assume the U.S cars and U.K cars would be built with the same throttle arm?

[V12woollie]

rango am said:

One would assume the U.S cars and U.K cars would be built with the same throttle arm?

Probably, but you grab one off the shelf and they aren't necessarily all from the same batch. I'm sure they identified the affected VINS.

[Lunablack]

rango am said:

One would assume the U.S cars and U.K cars would be built with the same throttle arm?

With one being LHD.... I'd not be surprised, if they were different parts

[mikey k]

Old news
I posted the original thread
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Not too many UK cars affected and I suspect all have been dealt with by now.

[snipez999]

My DB9.2 had this done

[rango am]

Lunablack said:

With one being LHD.... I'd not be surprised, if they were different parts

LHD or RHD pedal box would contain the same pedals, just the box would be a mirror image.

As all cars whether LHD or RHD have the pedals in same order clutch far left break in middle and throttle on the right.

However as i can not find a part number for the pedal arm itself, im unable to check whether there the same or not

[Simon T]

rango am said:

As all cars whether LHD or RHD have the pedals in same order clutch far left break in middle and throttle on the right.

no st Sherlock...

[IanV12VR]

mikey k said:

Old news
I posted the original thread
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Not too many UK cars affected and I suspect all have been dealt with by now.

Agree on old news - mine was sorted back in July (i think) and it took about 20 minutes to do. Painless and another excuse to take the car for a run during this fantastic summer.

[Y100]

snipez999 said:

My DB9.2 had this done

No-one said anything to me, my DB9.2 build was in June, so maybe after the dodgy batch had been binned. Not to worry, we'll be testing its snap-ability good n proper tomorrow at Millbrook.