High Mileage V8 Vantage

[magpie21]

Hi all

I've currently got an 04 E46 M3 and will be looking to change it in the new year.

One of the cars I'm considering is a V8 vantage. I currently do 25-30k per year in the M3 and was wondering if anyone here sees that sort of mileage in their Aston? If so is there anything to look out for apart from the usual? What are the service intervals like and what do they cost?

Driving the number of miles I do in the M3 I'm obviously used to ridiculous fuel bills and changing tyres every 6 mths and I'm well aware the car is going to nose dive in value, but It's essentially my office so I want to be somewhere thats a bit more interesting than a Vectra!!

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[jus]

magpie21 said:

Hi all

I've currently got an 04 E46 M3 and will be looking to change it in the new year.

One of the cars I'm considering is a V8 vantage. I currently do 25-30k per year in the M3 and was wondering if anyone here sees that sort of mileage in their Aston? If so is there anything to look out for apart from the usual? What are the service intervals like and what do they cost?

Driving the number of miles I do in the M3 I'm obviously used to ridiculous fuel bills and changing tyres every 6 mths and I'm well aware the car is going to nose dive in value, but It's essentially my office so I want to be somewhere thats a bit more interesting than a Vectra!!

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I've doner 30,000 trouble-free kilometres on my Vantage. Servicing costs aren't particularly high, but the special tyres sure are. Expect these to cost a lot more.

I owned two E46 M3s, and those cars are very efficient and light on fuel. The Vantage will be significantly heavier.

[bogie]

yeah, im doing 20-30K a year in mine no probs

Its cheaper (!) to run than my old daily drive - an Audi RS6 which had silly consumable costs and as soon as you got near a dealer their eyes lit up

Servicing every 10K miles is about £600-700 ish as long as you are not in a London dealer that charges £150 an hour (5 hours is labour)

tyres and brake pads are no more expensive really than other decent ones for a sportscar. Ive paid £200 for some pads fitted, they lasted about 20K miles. Rear tyres lasted 18K ish and fronts 28k miles. Fronts were £200 a corner and rears about £250 ish IIRC. I use Grange in Brentwood (where I used to live) and they are within a few % of on-line tyre places and have been fair with servicing so far and taken care of any service bulletin fixes like the stiff gearchange etc

So if someone else is paying your fuel then its actually not *that* bad as a daily driver sportscar that you can do everything in and just about leave anywhere