conundrum/opportunity/nightmare involving a DB7 V12 Vantage

[Agent57]

Forgive me for not reading the whole story but would the car not be written off by the insurance company?

They keep the car and send you a cheque for the value?

[morgaana]

Mr 57 welcome back! Please see my original post ....

[Agent57]

Oh yes, Sorry lost the thread over the years.

[morgaana]

Agent57 said:

Oh yes, Sorry lost the thread over the years.

Tell me about it!! Feels like a lifetime ...

[trevalvole]

As per https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I'd be inclined to contact https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/s... and see what they have to say.

[morgaana]

trevalvole said:

As per https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I'd be inclined to contact https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/s... and see what they have to say.

trevalvole thank you very much, that suggestion of yours back on Page 2 somehow disappeared out of my consciousness! I shall give them a call. Have a great day

[trevalvole]

morgaana said:

trevalvole said:

As per https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I'd be inclined to contact https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/s... and see what they have to say.

trevalvole thank you very much, that suggestion of yours back on Page 2 somehow disappeared out of my consciousness! I shall give them a call. Have a great day

As others mentioned, there's also https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/ , though with them being in North Yorkshire they are probably a bit further away from you.

While you look into ways of selling it, are you doing anything to prevent the battery going flat?

[morgaana]

trevalvole said:

morgaana said:

trevalvole said:

As per https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I'd be inclined to contact https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/s... and see what they have to say.

trevalvole thank you very much, that suggestion of yours back on Page 2 somehow disappeared out of my consciousness! I shall give them a call. Have a great day

As others mentioned, there's also https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/ , though with them being in North Yorkshire they are probably a bit further away from you.

While you look into ways of selling it, are you doing anything to prevent the battery going flat?

Thank you trevalvole, I'd forgotten about them as well!

Yes, wise question! - I have it on trickle charge. I learned my lesson about that with my first Aston. After letting it go flat more than once, I decided to drill it into myself by walking 4.7 miles each way to the local Halfords for a charger unit. Walking 4.7 miles with a 7kg charger on one's back may not sound like much, but I was cream crackered by the time I got home!

I never let the battery go flat again! The charging unit I have now is much smaller, lighter, and better than the heavier one. Very good for trickle charging.

[AstonZagato]

There might be a youtuber who would want to take it on as a project - AutoAlex springs to mind. However, I don't think a DB7 is really going to get their 'yoof' audience salivating.

[LTP]

morgaana said:

Thank you trevalvole, I'd forgotten about them as well!

Yes, wise question! - I have it on trickle charge. I learned my lesson about that with my first Aston. After letting it go flat more than once, I decided to drill it into myself by walking 4.7 miles each way to the local Halfords for a charger unit. Walking 4.7 miles with a 7kg charger on one's back may not sound like much, but I was cream crackered by the time I got home!

I never let the battery go flat again! The charging unit I have now is much smaller, lighter, and better than the heavier one. Very good for trickle charging.

Probably semantics, but never put your battery on a "trickle charger" that isn't a battery conditioner. A true trickle charger will continue to try to push a small current into the battery, which lead-acid batteries don't like when they are charged (I think they sulphate). A conditioner has a controlled cycle of small charges, no charge and discharges it runs through once the battery is fully charged that helps keep it in tip-top condition

[morgaana]

AstonZagato said:

There might be a youtuber who would want to take it on as a project - AutoAlex springs to mind. However, I don't think a DB7 is really going to get their 'yoof' audience salivating.

AstonZagato intriguing - although I wonder if it's a big enough project for someone like that? Funnily enough, the 'young people' around here who've seen the car have manifested a good deal of drooling .. the word 'lush' has been heard more than once ... Not what I might have expected!

[morgaana]

LTP said:

morgaana said:

Thank you trevalvole, I'd forgotten about them as well!

Yes, wise question! - I have it on trickle charge. I learned my lesson about that with my first Aston. After letting it go flat more than once, I decided to drill it into myself by walking 4.7 miles each way to the local Halfords for a charger unit. Walking 4.7 miles with a 7kg charger on one's back may not sound like much, but I was cream crackered by the time I got home!

I never let the battery go flat again! The charging unit I have now is much smaller, lighter, and better than the heavier one. Very good for trickle charging.

Probably semantics, but never put your battery on a "trickle charger" that isn't a battery conditioner. A true trickle charger will continue to try to push a small current into the battery, which lead-acid batteries don't like when they are charged (I think they sulphate). A conditioner has a controlled cycle of small charges, no charge and discharges it runs through once the battery is fully charged that helps keep it in tip-top condition

trevalvole - thank you. This is the thing I'm using. It claims to be good for 'longterm maintenance charging'. What do you think?

[morgaana]

[trevalvole]

morgaana said:

That'll be fine.

[morgaana]

trevalvole said:

morgaana said:

That'll be fine.

Hurrah!!!

[dokkodo]

trevalvole said:

morgaana said:

That'll be fine.

Indeed it will - most of us use exactly that!

[morgaana]

dokkodo said:

trevalvole said:

morgaana said:

That'll be fine.

Indeed it will - most of us use exactly that!

Ha! Always comforting to realise I am doing something right! Thank you dokkodo

[trevalvole]

morgaana said:

trevalvole said:

As per https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I'd be inclined to contact https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/s... and see what they have to say.

trevalvole thank you very much, that suggestion of yours back on Page 2 somehow disappeared out of my consciousness! I shall give them a call. Have a great day

What did they say?

[alscar]

morgaana said:

Probably too late now but the MXS5 model is probably a better buy.
Nothing wrong with the 3.8 model but that seems to have more issues running on cars with than perhaps smaller batteries fitted to Quads and Lawn Tractors.
Or perhaps I’ve just been unlucky.

[morgaana]

trevalvole said:

morgaana said:

trevalvole said:

As per https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... I'd be inclined to contact https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/s... and see what they have to say.

trevalvole thank you very much, that suggestion of yours back on Page 2 somehow disappeared out of my consciousness! I shall give them a call. Have a great day

What did they say?

trevalvole thank you for the nudge! They said they can't tell me anything without seeing pictures, which seems fair. SGF suggested I take a fresh picture of the car with all the parts hanging on it, not to try to fool anybody, but to show what it'll look like once those are re-attached. I'm waiting for a suitably sunny day for that operation, on a day when I am also not in a meeting or out somewhere, at the exact moment the rays burst out of a cloudless sky. So when I have that pic I'll put together a little pack for them and e-mail it over. They did say that they have no problem with vehicles that need some work doing, so that's promising.