Aston Martin V8 Vantage N400 Sills

[Adam2S]

EBruce said:

I agree with Adam! The car is pretty much perfect as is and I feel it takes away just so slightly from the bulging fenders. My biggest fear with AM is that they will just keep adding pieces to a perfect product to "update it".

Actually you agree with Murph - was his quote... Anyway I think you are right, its only a matter of time before the N400 sills become std fit on V8 - in fact Im expecting them to be std from this build year (MY11) based upon some of the spyshots we saw a couple of months back.

The V12 sills are even more flared so fitting N400 sills to V8 as std will still allow for some differentiation between models. In fact the V12 sills are so wide they make it quite difficult for anybody under 6' tall to "get your leg over" when getting out of the car.

Edited by Adam2S on Friday 27th August 11:48

[Murph7355]

EBruce said:

...My biggest fear with AM is that they will just keep adding pieces to a perfect product to "update it". ...

Agree with this.

Clear lenses, fat sills, "splitters", "diffusers", "lipstick", dubious colour schemes, dubious stitching, different coloured mesh, wheels. Some are good, some not. But agree that Aston need to be very careful. Trinkets are not a substitute for a proper redesign.

(All that said...at the homecoming visit they showed the prototype pictures and I did like the lack of chrome around the side windows. Bits that don't fit to well in places anyway if my car's anything to go by).

[Calculator]

Does anyone have any recent experience of costs for supply and fit of the sills?

[v8woollie]

Calculator said:

Does anyone have any recent experience of costs for supply and fit of the sills?

This may help:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=112...