New N430 Owner

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tgclowes

Original Poster:

198 posts

115 months

Saturday 30th December 2017
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Hi!

Long time lurker, I picked up my N430 a couple of months ago now from Aston Martin Nottingham. Pretty good spec but for me the most important parts are the manual box and the premium audio.




Here is it with my daily:



And here it is being taken back to Aston Martin Nottingham after a recurring fault involving the car cutting out whilst moving leaving me with no steering/brakes. Also the key gets very incredibly hot in it's dash-hole which makes me think something is shorting somewhere. Great car all the same and hopefully I'll have it back soon.

Buster73

5,042 posts

152 months

Saturday 30th December 2017
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Welcome from another N430 owner .

Never listen to my audio ,always drive with my window down listening to the real music.

Mr.Tremlini

1,460 posts

100 months

Saturday 30th December 2017
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Welcome! A nice, subtle N430, it looks great. We share Audi wagons as DD`s too, clearly you`re a man of taste and integrity! wink

AstonV

1,563 posts

105 months

Sunday 31st December 2017
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Beautiful car you have. Does it have the light weight seats?

JohnG1

3,462 posts

204 months

Sunday 31st December 2017
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OP:

When the car cuts out is the fuel tank full or nearly full and have you been cornering hard?

The 4.3 v8 had a serious manufacturing defect that meant the engine would cut out under certain circumstances. For my 4.3 v8 I ended up with a Gaydon after-sales technical advisor and a laptop plugged into both obd2 sockets in the passenger seat. After replication of the problem AML paid for a replacement catalytic convertor and replaced the petrol tank.

This has all been covered at length on here.

Now, the N430 has the 4.7 v8 but if the conditions match, maybe it's a similar problem.

Hot key is pretty normal.

tgclowes

Original Poster:

198 posts

115 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2018
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Buster73 said:
Welcome from another N430 owner .

Never listen to my audio ,always drive with my window down listening to the real music.
In honesty the premium audio is fairly disappointing so as you say, it's window down most of the time.

Mr.Tremlini said:
Welcome! A nice, subtle N430, it looks great. We share Audi wagons as DD`s too, clearly you`re a man of taste and integrity! wink
Ha! My first and probably not my last Audi Estate. Thank you sir, and to you.

AstonV said:
Beautiful car you have. Does it have the light weight seats?
Sadly not, during my search these seemed to fairly rare. Normal seats are doing the job for now mind.

JohnG1 said:
OP:

When the car cuts out is the fuel tank full or nearly full and have you been cornering hard?

The 4.3 v8 had a serious manufacturing defect that meant the engine would cut out under certain circumstances. For my 4.3 v8 I ended up with a Gaydon after-sales technical advisor and a laptop plugged into both obd2 sockets in the passenger seat. After replication of the problem AML paid for a replacement catalytic convertor and replaced the petrol tank.

This has all been covered at length on here.

Now, the N430 has the 4.7 v8 but if the conditions match, maybe it's a similar problem.

Hot key is pretty normal.
The first time it happened I only got the amber warning light, some quick research at the side of the road pointed out a few potential issues relating to the fact I'd been on holiday and the car had been left standing for a week, which for me shouldn't really be an issue but there you go, full tank of fuel soon righted that one.

After a big scary red exclamation mark and 'engine system service urgent', I drove in limp mode to Aston Nottingham and they the car threw up a fault code relating to something to do with the throttle. In all honesty I can't remember what the specific issue was.

The two occasions with a red warning light were just after a corner/roundabout and I can't really recall the amount of fuel in the tank.

Either way Aston Martin Nottingham has it now and for what it's worth they have been fantastic so far with everything, no complaints from me.

JohnG1

3,462 posts

204 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2018
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tgclowes said:
JohnG1 said:
OP:

When the car cuts out is the fuel tank full or nearly full and have you been cornering hard?

The 4.3 v8 had a serious manufacturing defect that meant the engine would cut out under certain circumstances. For my 4.3 v8 I ended up with a Gaydon after-sales technical advisor and a laptop plugged into both obd2 sockets in the passenger seat. After replication of the problem AML paid for a replacement catalytic convertor and replaced the petrol tank.

This has all been covered at length on here.

Now, the N430 has the 4.7 v8 but if the conditions match, maybe it's a similar problem.

Hot key is pretty normal.
The first time it happened I only got the amber warning light, some quick research at the side of the road pointed out a few potential issues relating to the fact I'd been on holiday and the car had been left standing for a week, which for me shouldn't really be an issue but there you go, full tank of fuel soon righted that one.

After a big scary red exclamation mark and 'engine system service urgent', I drove in limp mode to Aston Nottingham and they the car threw up a fault code relating to something to do with the throttle. In all honesty I can't remember what the specific issue was.

The two occasions with a red warning light were just after a corner/roundabout and I can't really recall the amount of fuel in the tank.

Either way Aston Martin Nottingham has it now and for what it's worth they have been fantastic so far with everything, no complaints from me.
Just after corner/roundabout was where I had troubles. Once the engine cut out on a 50mph stretch of road with a 90 degree turn and a brick wall at the corner. Try turning the wheel and/or using the brakes without power assistance - not fun...

Oddly sounds great similar. Mine was a warranty claim for around £4500 in total. AML dealers claim "never seen that before" but it's pretty common with 4.3 V8. Not heard of it with 4.7.

If you can replicate by running until engine is thoroughly hot, filling petrol tank and then taking corners at speed (note - DO NOT DO THIS ON A PUBLIC ROAD) then it sounds like the fuel tank breather issue I had.

Look on here for more details...

blueg33

35,580 posts

223 months

Tuesday 2nd January 2018
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op, it looks lovely

Emilio Largo

582 posts

110 months

Monday 15th January 2018
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tgclowes, any news to this startling issue yet? Having bought a new V8 Vantage S last summer I would really like to know if this tank/fuelling issue is still current. I thought this was long overcome!

Speedraser

1,656 posts

182 months

Monday 15th January 2018
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Hot key? Never in my 8+ years with my '09. I can't help with the cutting out (happily it's never happened), but that's truly scary.

tgclowes

Original Poster:

198 posts

115 months

Tuesday 16th January 2018
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said:
tgclowes, any news to this startling issue yet? Having bought a new V8 Vantage S last summer I would really like to know if this tank/fuelling issue is still current. I thought this was long overcome!
Aston changed the throttle pedal, to put it short it was playing up, sending wrong signals to the engine (fly by wire) so when the car sees that happening it just cuts out. The fault code that logged led them there.

Speedraser said:
Hot key? Never in my 8+ years with my '09. I can't help with the cutting out (happily it's never happened), but that's truly scary.
My Dad had a DBS and I never saw this either, warm yes (if the heaters had been on). Interestingly enough since the fix above, I've had no more hot key, which is great because it was scorching hot.