So what have you done with your Aston today? (Vol. 2)

[AMVSVNick]

josh bear said:

cayman-black said:

I just love that car.

Lol. Me too! Loved all the Aston’s I have owned but the Vanquish is something special.

Josh

[DBSV8]

Octavarium said:

mioh said:

Helped the kids making gingerbread. Removed the car cover and gave my DB9 a cookie.

Very tasteful indeed. My wife thinks they look better than my carbon fibre badges, which she thinks look unfinished ( I like 'em though )

not unlike mine

[EVR]

oily mist said:

Replaced the external temperature sensor (which had gone do-lally and started reporting it is 61C outside). Easy fix with a generic part that cost just £5.50 - a satisfying 10 minute job.

Did that one too when I bought the car, but bought the original AM one for around 20€. Do you have any additional info on the generic part if I ever need to do that again? Cheers.

[Mr.Tremlini]

Graze01 said:

Went for a 250km Xmas drive with my V8VS mate. Early morning light city traffic, 40km off hills, 100 odd kms of fast sweeping rural roads, the same 40km of twisty hills and back into town. Average speed 94km/hr. My V12VS took 40.1litres of fuel, his V8VS took 40.6litres. He was consistently in a lower gear at higher revs over the hills and twisty bits whereas I could use 3rd gear torque out of many of the corners, but I was blown away with how similar the fuel use was.

We are off for a few thousand kms together in January to go to the Bathurst 12 hour (let's hope aston can come first not second this year) so will monitor it again then.

Graze

That drive sounds like time well spent.

I grew up watching Bathurst on tele, the 1000 was my habitual "leave me alone, I have an esky full of beer and snacks and only wish I also had incontinence pants so I don`t have to go to the dunny every hour" day. Friends would drop by, but few had my stamina. Sadly, never actually made it to the "mountain" but hope to still, epic race track.
This year`s overtake on the Jake Dennis Aston in the last 10 minutes was a heartbreaker!

[Graze01]

Mr.Tremlini said:

That drive sounds like time well spent.

I grew up watching Bathurst on tele, the 1000 was my habitual "leave me alone, I have an esky full of beer and snacks and only wish I also had incontinence pants so I don`t have to go to the dunny every hour" day. Friends would drop by, but few had my stamina. Sadly, never actually made it to the "mountain" but hope to still, epic race track.
This year`s overtake on the Jake Dennis Aston in the last 10 minutes was a heartbreaker!

Dean

maybe plan to come over one year for the 12 hour

sure we could find you a car

Merry Xmas mate

Graeme

[milu]

Gave it a blow dry.
Drive it. Wash it. Dry it with my new Lidl vacuum/blower. Nice warm air too. Great before putting in the garage

[milu]

Also stood the car up so it ran off lol

[Aldhun]

First opportunity for a drive in the DB9 GT this month. Drove 40 miles each way to Hastings for a Newspaper with the top down. Great way to spend 55p!

[Manners79]

Aldhun said:

First opportunity for a drive in the DB9 GT this month. Drove 40 miles each way to Hastings for a Newspaper with the top down. Great way to spend 55p!

Wish I got that sort of mpg ;-)

[Shrimpvende]

milu said:

Gave it a blow dry.
Drive it. Wash it. Dry it with my new Lidl vacuum/blower. Nice warm air too. Great before putting in the garage

That looks like a really handy piece of kit! Do you know if they're available on the website or is it a store only job? I'm afraid I'm an Aldi veteran rather than Lidl so unfamiliar with the setup!

Cheers

[RL17]

Shrimpvende said:

milu said:

Gave it a blow dry.
Drive it. Wash it. Dry it with my new Lidl vacuum/blower. Nice warm air too. Great before putting in the garage

That looks like a really handy piece of kit! Do you know if they're available on the website or is it a store only job? I'm afraid I'm an Aldi veteran rather than Lidl so unfamiliar with the setup!

Cheers

Lidl may be a Thursday special in store only?

Use a 2800kw Stepless pet blower (for £50 or so) - variable speed dryer/blower with and without heat and looks a bit more stable/less likely to roll into something.

Great for wheels, rear lights. mirrors and the Vantage door handles.

[milu]

Store only I think. £40. Wet and dry vac with blow. Nice long hose. I didn’t buy it to use as a drier, just a good bonus

[Cold]

Took an extra chair round to my daughter's flat for her Christmas dinner table.

[jarpot]

Waitrose! What would we do without them?

[YKnot]

Took delivery of my new Diablo Red Vantage


Took my boy out for a couple of hours. Getting to know the car.........utterly smitten !

[V12andV8 only]

Took vantage to top of Holme moss in yorkshire
loooking for sunrise, but the only orange light was the paint! (although its actually scorpus red )

great Vantage deals still out there, thanks to john at JCT leeds


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[V12andV8 only]

YKnot said:

Took delivery of my new Diablo Red Vantage


Took my boy out for a couple of hours. Getting to know the car.........utterly smitten !

Hi would be great to see some pics, is this Diavolo red ? a deeper dark red

[YKnot]

[V12andV8 only]

day 5 of my new vantage experience
drove from yorkshire to reading yesterday to see sister,

great to drive on yorkshire A roads, and smooth and quiet on the motorways 24.7 mpg going south, 25.2 returning ( its always uphill going north!

acceleration impressive, sport + best for general A roads , sport for motorway crusing and, track mode... well the roads a little to damp and slippery to try that out at the moment

[YKnot]

Agreed, for me Sport+ for Exhaust and sport for suspension seems about right for me

Track mode is obscene hahaha and a little too “look at me”

All imo