New Aston owner

[AJKOK1]

Hi all, just wanted to share my first Aston, which I collected a week ago. 2006 Vantage V8.

Loving the car so far, been a classic 911 man up to now and it’s great to feel (and hear) the differences. She’s done 38k, anything worth looking out for on this age Vantage ? The clutch has been replaces <1k miles ago.

Al

[alan powley]

Al very nice car .

[Manx V8V]

Congrats, nice car, first thing I did on mine was to get it 4 wheel aligned on a Hunter system just for peace of mind, although I thought it drove fine it was actually a fair way out when he checked it, just through the passage of time and small amounts of wear I guess, but I could feel the difference afterwards.

[avinalarf]

Nice car....... congrats.

[AJKOK1]

Manx V8V said:

Congrats, nice car, first thing I did on mine was to get it 4 wheel aligned on a Hunter system just for peace of mind, although I thought it drove fine it was actually a fair way out when he checked it, just through the passage of time and small amounts of wear I guess, but I could feel the difference afterwards.

Thank you , that sounds like good advice, will check out. Al

[anonymous-user]

Congratulations car looks lovely.

Maybe it is just the angles/light but it looks to be sitting a bit lower than normal to me?

[AJKOK1]

Thank you - I don’t have any benchmark but it is very low and I need to almost stop to get over local speed bumps. Can’t see anything in history about it being lowered at any time though.

Any easy measurement to check ?

Thanks in advance.

[GingerMunky]

Looks beautiful! Welcome

[macdeb]

soofsayer said:

Congratulations car looks lovely.

Maybe it is just the angles/light but it looks to be sitting a bit lower than normal to me?

I'd go with that.
Congratulations, ace car.

[bogie]

Congrats, looks in great condition.

It looks like it has been lowered, probably got some 25-40mm lower springs on it

[billydo]

Manx V8V said:

Congrats, nice car, first thing I did on mine was to get it 4 wheel aligned on a Hunter system just for peace of mind, although I thought it drove fine it was actually a fair way out when he checked it, just through the passage of time and small amounts of wear I guess, but I could feel the difference afterwards.

That's good advice. Is this type of facility widely available or is it a very specialist service?

Thanks...

[Manx V8V]

billydo said:

That's good advice. Is this type of facility widely available or is it a very specialist service?

Thanks...

I happened to have a Hunter equipped specialist very local, but if you google i'm sure you'll find one not far away, other brands are of course available, just not sure how good they all are.

[Manx V8V]

Just had a quick look out of curiosity, and if you go to alignmycar.co.uk and stick your post code in, it throws up all the local options (assuming your are UK based of course)

[AJKOK1]

Got mine booked in for next week with a local facility near me that has a Hunter system - £45 to do.

[billydo]

Manx V8V said:

Just had a quick look out of curiosity, and if you go to alignmycar.co.uk and stick your post code in, it throws up all the local options (assuming your are UK based of course)

That's great, thank you!