>What are you waiting for, anon?
>>28902280Do you realize that just changing the engine oil in such a car can cost $1500 ?
>>28902294It carries 11.9 litres of oil, which people don't realise and they are left for 24 hours to let the drain through the system otherwise you risk putting too much in. My major service plus a few small things like adjusting my driver side window that dropped was £2185. Just to out it into perspective. Sparkplugs plus coil packs is about £1300.
>>28902280Complete and utter financial ruin? A guy I worked for had one, and it was his experience that put me off them, as he had nothing but problems. He'd spend gobs of money getting it fixed, then it'd be okay for a week or so before the next problem cropped up and it had to go away again. They're like that one chick who's single despite being an 11/10, and now she's asking YOU out. Someone so fucking stunningly beautiful that you wonder what she ever saw in you; only when she's shitting and pissing on your couch, burning all your clothes, and telling everyone that you beat her (she beats you) do you realise that what lurks beneath is the entire reason that she's forever on the market.
I don't trust these cars. However, this one is Japanese and stock so how abused could it be?
>>28902280Never in a million years would I buy an aston, let alone a used one. Britbong cars are worse than German cars.
>>28902294Only retards change the oil
>>28902280>v12excited! an M7*? M279? M120?>a couple of stacked shitty duratecsoooof, pass
>>28902322I know that chic
>>28902280And are you getting paid in usd or yen
>>28902322fuck dude I didn't need to be reminded of my relationship history first thing in the morning
>>28902322Shit, send her my way. What's the point of getting a blowjob without the subtle fear that this might be the day she decides to bite it off?
>>28902294>>28902301Suppose I had enough hubris to assume I can wrench one one of these myself and avoid the huge costs - what am I in for? Is there zero documentation or something? Do I need special tools? Will I need to lift the engine out to do anything? Fuck, does it need an engine rebuild every thousand miles or something?
>>28902679You can wrench on them but i'd do your research on procedures and how. You don't need to take the engine out for basic shit. However you will need to lift the car and take the front wheel liners and wheels off to access the air filters and certain spark plugs/coil packs. On piston heads there's a thread where an owner had an early DB9, got the unfortunate infamous engine tick. So he found a wrecked db9 from the rear and the owner and talked to him about its ownership and the damage if anything happened to the engine. Payed for the engine and removed it, swapped the engines himself then sold his other engine toma company so they could refurb it. So it's all doable with the right knowledge, tools and equipment.The aston community is very helpful and generally knowledgeable so you'll be able to find the information you need. However i'd recommend getting one with a decent history, getting a dirt cheap one will be ruinous.>>28902322Oof I feel sorry for him. So far mine has been trouble free, apart from going to fill up petrol, where it keeps cutting off so you're stood there for eons with it clicking on and off. From what i've seen the good ones are really good and the bad ones you may as well set your wallet on fire.>>28902461Knows nothing the post.
>>28902700> Payed for the engine and removed it, swapped the engines himself then sold his other engine toma company so they could refurb it. So it's all doable with the right knowledge, tools and equipmentwow this sounds like an incredible deal and not at all a horrible time sink and pain in the fucking ass for a 20 year old luxury coupe you already dropped 25 grand on
>>28902703That guy had owned that car from new, he swapped his early engine for a later more powerful one. If he wanted to keep the car he had from brand new because he loved it so much then good on him. He paid fuck all to swap the engine essentially because he had the ability to do it himself.
>>28902700Thats why its so cheap
>>28902717>A 20 year old car is cheapI am shocked.
>>28902700Interesting, thanks. I already have a pretty reliable car for a daily so this would be a pure project anyway and the various Astons were my dream cars in my teens.
>>28902679There is no car you can't wrench on if you know how cars work.
>>28902301dry sumps are so fucking gay its unreal.
>>28902969It's notba dry sump the V12 it's a wet sump, just a large system. The V8's are a dry sump.
>>28902969>wet sumps like the 86’s are the be-ACK! (btfo by turning right)
>>28902986>>28902969Accusump is the way.
>>28902939Sure but there's a big gap between changing the oil once in a while and maybe a timing belt on my A3 1.6TDI and doing fuck knows what an AML V12 monster needs, hence asking if it's a weird one. I'd worry that simply knowing how cars work does not give me enough of an insight into the unique madness of British mechanical engineering to be comfortable proceeding even if I did do everything the service manual commands, if I could even get my hands on one, Haynes doesn't seem to carry them.
>>28902700anon, give me some advice: I've heard people recommend the db9 over the v8 vantage because it has "muh v12" and a more practical interior, while not losing much in the way of sportiness (neither are a lotus, so the v8 vantage is a bit soft for a sports car despite the impracticality of one). I just want a sporty cruiser for 2-3 hour drives (sometimes 6-8 hour roadtrips). I found a manual transmission db9 but it's $90k, this automatic one is $22k and, a v8 vantage (MT) is $45k. I'm thinking wait for the v8 vantage, but if I got the db9 I think I could sell my sedan and clear out some garage space (no kids/family, would just be nice to have a bit more space for longer drives). I think I'll hate having such a nice car in automatic though.
>>28903001the v8's are solid, the early year v12's apparently develop two sorts of ticks:>1 is just an annoying sound, not a big deal>2nd is "engine will fail" eventually sound, is a big deal (for you)Changing belts & basic maintenance doesn't look bad at all. My estimate, as a non-owner but who has been doing a lot of research on these, is to probably just triple the costs of an I4 for annual maintenance and then add a bit more on top for the aston parts tax (there are some sites that sell parts, but if you can't find something aftermarket you're going to get raped by aston it seems). Clutch kits are like $4k, for example. https://aston1936.com/2022/01/26/changing-the-serpentine-belt-and-idler-pulleys-on-an-aston-martin-db9/
>>28903019That was a pretty great read, thanks Anon. I'll do some forum lurking as this is looking more and more like it'll be an awesome thing to do. Honestly 14 year old me would be fucking stoked that he might end up owning one of these.
>>28903001If you know how to wrench, you don't need a Haynes manual. There's an extremely limited number of things on a car that aftermarket alternatives don't exist for, and it's mostly just large castings like the block and heads and transmission case. Even for a car like this that has little to no application-specific aftermarket, finding suitable parts is just a matter of taking measurements, looking through a catalog, and maybe having a bit of machine work done.
>>28903005So i am a "muh V12" man. The V8 is pretty solidly reliable and I have nothing really to say about it. If Vantage anon appears he'd be able to tell you more about that in depth than I can. But they are generally solid. The V12, again they are quite dependable but they have 2 weaknesses. The first is the infamous engine tick. While it hasn't been confirmed the root cause of this, but it's suspected it's the lining is the absolute root cause. It seems to be more prevalent in earlier engines so the AM04 and earlier but it's not contained to there. Unfortunately if you get this issue, it's pretty catastrophic and very expensive. Issue number 2 is to do with the exhaust manifold being an accountants item. The engine sucks back air. The problem is the catalytic converters on the exhaust manifold are just above. So if the engine starts misfiring you risk blowing the lining/honeycomb material out of the cat which can be sucked back into the engine block, which in turn causes a horrible fate. This can be avoided by staying on top of any misfires, changing sparkplugs and coil packs when you are supposed to or need to. The other way is to remove the cats completely and weld it back up or change the exhaust manifold (my preference) and you can either not have the internal cats or route them further down. Problem avoided. Also doing this you can then change how much the car enriches the fuel to help keep the cats cool and you can actually make it more economical on fuel as well (it will still chew through fuel). So in terms of practically the DB9 has less boot space than the Vantage and the vantage has a hatch to make it easier. Though the DB9 does have rear seats but unless you are carrying a 2 year old it may as well hold more luggage. I found space wise between the DB9, Vantage and DBS as a place to sit rather similar.
It's cheap because it would cost you ¥150,000 year in taxes
