New car painted wrong colour
Discussion
rkwm1 said:
Has anybody had their new limited edition car painted the wrong colour by the factory? If so what was the outcome? Does the manufacturer have to honour the order and manufacture a car to your specification?
I haven't but I bought a car off a Porsche Dealer that had been accidentally ordered in the wrong spec so the customer had refused it. The original customer was loaned the vehicle free of charge whilst a new one was manufactured.I got the car at a significant discount as the dealer wanted rid of it a.s.a.p.
Perfectly nice car, just not what the original customer had ordered. Porsche fixed their mistake very honourably I thought and I got a cheaper, virtually new car as well...
cayman-black said:
Its a lovely car but in all honesty silver does nothing for it. You must take it though.
Agree with this. I'm happy for the OP that he likes it, but with those black carbon areas it would look much better in a very much darker colour imo. It's still stunning and very very lovely, but...
As usual, I'm late to the party on this- will be interesting to see what solutions are offered by Mr Palmer/AM- but (and I know this ground has already been covered):
Given that a new GT8 can't be built, and financially speaking, the OP would be mad to reject the silver car, and to top it off, the car was ordered in a satin finish, surely this lends itself perfectly to a satin grey vinyl wrap of the right shade of grey? Done by the most reputable company around, paid for and documented by AM, plus additional goodwill gestures e.g. servicing or priority list for next ltd edition build.
I know the OP has said he's not a fan of wraps, but this is probably the best compromise all round? Especially as the OP has now said that it still looks awesome in satin silver. I know it's not what was ordered, and I would be absolutely gutted in this same situation, but it's pretty clear that Aston Martin are not going to build another GT8, are they? A total factory respray would cost the earth too (I guess this would be the ultimate solution) so I would be surprised (but impressed) if this was offered.
Given that a new GT8 can't be built, and financially speaking, the OP would be mad to reject the silver car, and to top it off, the car was ordered in a satin finish, surely this lends itself perfectly to a satin grey vinyl wrap of the right shade of grey? Done by the most reputable company around, paid for and documented by AM, plus additional goodwill gestures e.g. servicing or priority list for next ltd edition build.
I know the OP has said he's not a fan of wraps, but this is probably the best compromise all round? Especially as the OP has now said that it still looks awesome in satin silver. I know it's not what was ordered, and I would be absolutely gutted in this same situation, but it's pretty clear that Aston Martin are not going to build another GT8, are they? A total factory respray would cost the earth too (I guess this would be the ultimate solution) so I would be surprised (but impressed) if this was offered.
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