Where are the Titanium Silver Cars (Vantages) ?

[sundayjumper]

Frances The Mute said:

That's a name I've not seen for a while. I take it you still have something from Munich in the stable given the colour requirement?

LOL ! I don't recognise your user name, but you seem to like Alpinas... Craig ?

Yes, I have one of Munich's finest E46 diesel Compacts for tramping up & down the motorway every day. However my main allegiance switched to Stuttgart a few years ago with a 996:



(not a GT3)

I've done a few autosolos this year and fancy building up to sprints next year, that'll mean some changes to the 996 that make it less practical as a road car. Hence need a road car. Hence Aston

[Jon39]

Frances The Mute said:

What a wonderful photograph.

If you wanted to, you could use simple photo software, to remove the leaves from the front air intake, and also erase the car following you.

[Eggster]

baldyash said:

pggroves said:

Got one in the garage with Chancellor red interior. Keep looking ,it's a great colour and try for the red interior and red brake calipers as they suit the car. Keep the red rear lights as they look better than clear against the silver.
It took me 6 months to find one but its worth the wait. After 5 years I still go into the garage to look at it every night!!
Good luck !!

Snap,Titanium/Chancellor Red. Just the best. Headliner and s/wheel as well.Snapped it up about 4 years ago.certainly agree rf.rear lights.

Interesting thread - a snap from me as well, Titanium with Chancellor Red, I loved the colour combo when I saw it and it gets a lot of positive comments. The red is not as "in your face" as some of the Porsche red interiors I have seen.

[Grant3]

Titanium was available as a Fast Track/Primary colour up until the 2010MY. It was most popular on the earlier cars when silver was in fashion, as time progressed the darker colours became more popular and hence there was less Titanium cars and why the colour was taken off the Fast Track options for the 10MY. Funnily enough my first Aston (a 55 plate) was a Titanium V8 Vantage Coupe with Caspian Blue interior - loved the beastie - always looked clean and sparkled in the sunlight

[raceboy]

Not sure which silver this one is.....

http://www.benzbavarian.com/listings/aston-martin-...

Did plan on looking at it myself but they were closed when I drove past on my way home from Stratstone Derby.
Rear lights should be easy enough to change back to red, there's always more people wanting to go the other way.

[Mako V12V]

A pure light silver such as the one linked is titanium silver methinks as any other silver has elements of grey, or blue included.

[Manx V8V]

raceboy said:

Not sure which silver this one is.....

http://www.benzbavarian.com/listings/aston-martin-...

Did plan on looking at it myself but they were closed when I drove past on my way home from Stratstone Derby.
Rear lights should be easy enough to change back to red, there's always more people wanting to go the other way.

I spotted that one a few months ago when I was looking for mine, to be honest the black wheels put me off, but they also had another V8V at the same time which I shortlisted to enquire about but eventually did a deal elsewhere.

I think that's probably Titanium but It's hard to tell from photo's as my Tungsten silver looks as light as that in certain light.

[Manx V8V]

[Mako V12V]

That looks like Tungsten to me.

[Manx V8V]

And 10 seconds later from a different angle!!

[Frances The Mute]

sundayjumper said:

LOL ! I don't recognise your user name, but you seem to like Alpinas... Craig ?

Yes, I have one of Munich's finest E46 diesel Compacts for tramping up & down the motorway every day. However my main allegiance switched to Stuttgart a few years ago with a 996:



(not a GT3)

I've done a few autosolos this year and fancy building up to sprints next year, that'll mean some changes to the 996 that make it less practical as a road car. Hence need a road car. Hence Aston

Correct. Good to see you around again, Steve. Nice pork, too.
I was looking at getting a 996 myself as the usual stepping stone between BMW and the higher-end cars but eventually talked myself out of it given the various maladies they suffer from. How has yours been?

Your logic for getting one seems perfectly reasonable to me so good luck with finding one. It took me a year to get the car I wanted but the wait was worth it.

[sundayjumper]

Frances The Mute said:

How has yours been?

Touch wood - extremely good.

In 5½ years (but only about 15k miles) it's only properly let me down once, with a dodgy fuel pump relay. I had to get towed home but a new relay was <£10. One failed coil pack; I replaced the whole lot of course. An early visit to the rolling road highlighted a dodgy MAF. And another visit some years later eventually led to the diagnosis of a stuck solenoid controlling a flap in the intake plenum. I actually suspect it had been faulty the whole time but was masked by the MAF. It drove noticeably better with the new MAF so I didn't bother revisiting the RR straight away. New solenoid was cheap, and very easy to fit.

It has always made a creaking from the front suspension when hot. I've replaced the arms, the drop links & the top mounts, and greased the ARB bushes but it still does it ! I think new dampers are the only things left to try.

The a/c has never worked. Almost certainly the condenser rads but I've never been too bothered.

The usual weep from the RMS has been slowly growing over the last couple of years and has finally become a slow drip so I think it'll be time to do that soon, and a new clutch while we're there. That will be the first big bill I've had.

Overall - it's been a really good car. It's a keeper.

[sundayjumper]

Manx V8V said:

I spotted that one a few months ago when I was looking for mine, to be honest the black wheels put me off...

I saw it too, but felt the same way about the wheels ! Easy enough to change, of course, but still off-putting for some reason.

Also, it's a 2½ hour drive from here. I'd do it for the perfect car, but that one didn't sufficiently grab me.

[Grant3]

What about this one, you can't go wrong with Matt or Gavin at Grange and I'm sure you could swap the wheels for silver with a bit of negotiation
http://used.astonmartin.com/en-GB/Search/Details~D...

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Edited by Grant3 on Tuesday 27th June 13:12

[sundayjumper]

Right colour, wrong gearbox !

[Grant3]

sundayjumper said:

Right colour, wrong gearbox !

Could make a nice difference toyour 996, assuming it's manual? Why not test drive a Sportshift car and see what you think, although a Marmite option if you drive it using the paddles like a gearlever (ie like a manual) you may be surprised how enjoyable it can be

[sundayjumper]

That's a fair point, I've never driven a Sportshift, so maybe I should at least try one. I have a distrust of overly complicated mechanisms though and automating a perfectly good manual box falls into that category for me. Are they generally reliable ?

[HBradley]

sundayjumper said:

That's a fair point, I've never driven a Sportshift, so maybe I should at least try one. I have a distrust of overly complicated mechanisms though and automating a perfectly good manual box falls into that category for me. Are they generally reliable ?

Hi Steve, the SS & manual share exactly the same gearbox (apart for the electronic gubbins that replace the clutch pedal linkage which is controlled by the paddles). It takes a little getting used to but when mastered it is as rewarding as a manual. Whilst clearly not a DCT, it is also much lighter.
Aston Martin made a BIG mistake putting a D button on the dash; in short it doesn't do the job & has created a stick with which it has been beaten by every motoring hack who's driven one!
I love mine! Definitely worth test driving one!!

[sundayjumper]

Spoke to Garry at Grange yesterday, that car is sold. If I liked the Sportshift it would have been perfect. Rats.

There's a Solent Pearl Sportshift near home, I might try to look at that one this weekend.

[sundayjumper]

Well, that all resolved quite quickly. I'm picking up my Titanium Silver Vantage the week after next

Will post pics etc. once it's here.