Some Astons are not garage queens (V12V)

Some Astons are not garage queens (V12V)

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Alwin

125 posts

140 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Mine are not garage queens either:

  • My V12V now has over 55.000 kms on it (in almost 4 years)
  • The V12VR is just over 29.000 kms now (in 1.5 year)

cayman-black

Original Poster:

12,624 posts

215 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Alwin said:
Mine are not garage queens either:

  • My V12V now has over 55.000 kms on it (in almost 4 years)
  • The V12VR is just over 29.000 kms now (in 1.5 year)
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Any problems with these to watch out for Alwin. ?

CPBRI

392 posts

148 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Alwin said:
Mine are not garage queens either:

  • My V12V now has over 55.000 kms on it (in almost 4 years)
  • The V12VR is just over 29.000 kms now (in 1.5 year)
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jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Alwin said:
Mine are not garage queens either:

  • My V12V now has over 55.000 kms on it (in almost 4 years)
  • The V12VR is just over 29.000 kms now (in 1.5 year)
Excellent !

I'm on about 14k miles in my V12VR in a similar period but have an overseas trip coming up in Sept so should get pretty close !

So good to see them being used

ShrekV12VR

175 posts

148 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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jonby said:
Excellent !

I'm on about 14k miles in my V12VR in a similar period but have an overseas trip coming up in Sept so should get pretty close !

So good to see them being used
My V12VR is now on 10.5k miles after 14 months and I too have another 2k+ mile trip coming up in Sept. I sure I've seen that IANV12VR has a good mileage on his too, so the V12VR's are getting used smile

IanV12VR

2,749 posts

154 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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ShrekV12VR said:
My V12VR is now on 10.5k miles after 14 months and I too have another 2k+ mile trip coming up in Sept. I sure I've seen that IANV12VR has a good mileage on his too, so the V12VR's are getting used smile
Yep, mine went over 9k miles at the weekend and with what I have planned and our September trip should be at around 13k by her second birthday in November. So much for trying to keep the mileage down to 5k a year but there are just too many excuses to take her out. Only solution to keep the mileage down would be to get another one hehe

By the way is every V12VR away on its hols in September? I know that the lovely Sunburst yellow one is because we are on the same trip!

Also looking forward to seeing your Tungsten V12VR at Burghley Shrek

Edited by IanV12VR on Wednesday 23 July 20:56

silverspeed

1,505 posts

229 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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IanV12VR said:
ShrekV12VR said:
My V12VR is now on 10.5k miles after 14 months and I too have another 2k+ mile trip coming up in Sept. I sure I've seen that IANV12VR has a good mileage on his too, so the V12VR's are getting used smile
Yep, mine went over 9k miles at the weekend and with what I have planned and our September trip should be at around 13k by her second birthday in November. So much for trying to keep the mileage down to 5k a year but there are just too many excuses to take her out. Only solution to keep the mileage down would be to get another one hehe

By the way is every V12VR away on its hols in September? I know that the lovely Sunburst yellow one is because we are on the same trip!

Also looking forward to seeing your Tungsten V12VR at Burghley Shrek

Edited by IanV12VR on Wednesday 23 July 20:56
Nice collection of V12VRs then!

IanV12VR

2,749 posts

154 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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silverspeed said:
Nice collection of V12VRs then!
Quite a coup - 10% of the UK production on display. woohoo

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Unfortunately I'll be at Silverstone for the Classic on Sunday so can't do Burghley which I think some are at

My September trip starts on the 6th IIRC, which starts in Lucerne, then Dolomites, Northern Italy for a few days including either a Mugelo or Imola trackday (I've not decided which but they both are limited to 40 odd cars and have no noise limits !! ), Ferrari Factory tour and Lake Como, then Alps back through to Germany then home........

A few of us (there will be about 10 cars on the trip in total) are looking into having our cars transported on a shared covered transporter to Stuttgart where I could fly to and save 830 very boring miles of mainly motorway driving, plus saved fuel costs, hotel & Eurotunnel which I think may outweigh the cost of the transporter & a cheap flight to Germany

Very much looking forward to this one.........

mikey k

13,011 posts

215 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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jonby said:
Unfortunately I'll be at Silverstone for the Classic on Sunday so can't do Burghley which I think some are at

My September trip starts on the 6th IIRC, which starts in Lucerne, then Dolomites, Northern Italy for a few days including either a Mugelo or Imola trackday (I've not decided which but they both are limited to 40 odd cars and have no noise limits !! ), Ferrari Factory tour and Lake Como, then Alps back through to Germany then home........

A few of us (there will be about 10 cars on the trip in total) are looking into having our cars transported on a shared covered transporter to Stuttgart where I could fly to and save 830 very boring miles of mainly motorway driving, plus saved fuel costs, hotel & Eurotunnel which I think may outweigh the cost of the transporter & a cheap flight to Germany

Very much looking forward to this one.........
Sounds like a great trip!
Nice idea on the transporter
I managed 950 miles in one day from Andermatt to Home via tunnel

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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mikey k said:
jonby said:
Unfortunately I'll be at Silverstone for the Classic on Sunday so can't do Burghley which I think some are at

My September trip starts on the 6th IIRC, which starts in Lucerne, then Dolomites, Northern Italy for a few days including either a Mugelo or Imola trackday (I've not decided which but they both are limited to 40 odd cars and have no noise limits !! ), Ferrari Factory tour and Lake Como, then Alps back through to Germany then home........

A few of us (there will be about 10 cars on the trip in total) are looking into having our cars transported on a shared covered transporter to Stuttgart where I could fly to and save 830 very boring miles of mainly motorway driving, plus saved fuel costs, hotel & Eurotunnel which I think may outweigh the cost of the transporter & a cheap flight to Germany

Very much looking forward to this one.........
Sounds like a great trip!
Nice idea on the transporter
I managed 950 miles in one day from Andermatt to Home via tunnel
I've done 300/400/500 mile trips the other side plus 250 miles from Calais to home all on the same day, so not far off 950 (though I think my record is probably more like 850) but it's not fun ! Especially as the bulk of the roads tend to be quite boring - I've not done the transporter thing before but I think it could work out well...

CPBRI

392 posts

148 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Alwin said:
Mine are not garage queens either:

  • My V12V now has over 55.000 kms on it (in almost 4 years)
How's the clutch holding up?

mb1

579 posts

255 months

Sunday 27th July 2014
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Slightly off topic but this is too good not to share :-)

This V12 is most probably the queen of all garage queens. 1,004 miles in 19 years !!!!!

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...