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[SirVandru]

Not sure how much fans of custom cars you PH guys and gals are, but I know whats going on my wish list.

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[George H]

I always wondered what way I could quickly ruin my car, now I know.

[GlynMo]

My guess is that the combination of bigger rims and lowered suspension will turn a usable every day car into something that would have your fillings out over every pebble. And the bigger rims, especially the first set, make the discs look puny so what you gain in looks in one respect (if, indeed, you feel the rims are a plus) you lose in another (IMO).

[mikey k]

GlynMo said:

My guess is that the combination of bigger rims and lowered suspension will turn a usable every day car into something that would have your fillings out over every pebble. And the bigger rims, especially the first set, make the discs look puny so what you gain in looks in one respect (if, indeed, you feel the rims are a plus) you lose in another (IMO).

Yep
Massive increase in unsprung weight (have a look at F1 wheels ), hard springs and little suspension travel
Looks "cool dude" in Maccie D's car park but ruins the handling on anything other than smooth tarmac in straight lines (US then!)
We had an influx of this in the S2000 owners club they call it "hellaflush" I call it a waste of a good car!
Having said all that I'd like to lower my sport pack car ~20 mm

ETA they use a Mansory body kit in one shoot - that does it for me

Edited by mikey k on Tuesday 17th May 09:15

[moveover]

Crack dealer's car.

[yeti]

The blue car looks just about *ok*. Too big, there's a reason these cars ride on 19in wheels.

Nice pictures though, but glad we don't have to have the orange side reflectors like our colonial cousins.

[EpsomJames]

Not keen on those, the V8V looks better as standard IMO.

However I do like the Kahn kit on the DB9. Is that wrong to like?

[George H]

EpsomJames said:

However I do like the Kahn kit on the DB9. Is that wrong to like?

Yes. Yes it is.

[JohnG1]

George H said:

Yes. Yes it is.

Broadly speaking I'm a pretty liberal kind of guy. Live and let live and so on. But the kahn body kits are vile. Rather like 'boss performance'.

Just appear, to these eyes, to be a way to "chav-up" a beautiful car. I'd rather gouge out my eyeballs with a rusty nail instead of seeing one of these monstrosities again.

But hey, if you like it, knock yourself out :-)

[yeti]

JohnG1 said:

I'd rather gouge out my eyeballs with a rusty nail instead of seeing one of these monstrosities again.

• Really?*

I used to like them but now appriciate the DB9 as a thing of beauty and consider the DBS to be slight overkill. I do not find them inkeeping with the ethos of the DB9, but then nor is my exhaust.

I like to be different, just not 'Khan' different...

[EpsomJames]

I find the comments to the Kahn kit very interesting.

Ignoring the lowered ride height and slightly pimped wheels the Kahn kit is not that far removed from the look of the DBS. So I take it that DB9 owners are not taken with the looks of the DBS?

IMO the more muscular looks of DBS/Kahn lend themselves better to the overall dimensions of that VH platform which (again IMO) doesn't quite gel as well as the Vantage dimensions.

Don't get me wrong though, I wouldn't consider doing that to a DB9 as I prefer to keep my cars as standard, just that I think it looks better.

[yeti]

I don't find the Khan kit as horrific as some, but it does rather spoil the DB9 as it is not nearly as intergrated as Aston's own bodywork, it just kind of sits on top. It looks stuck on whereas the DBS looks very right. And it's an attept to make a DB9 look like a dBS to the casual observer. If that isn't the intention, then it looks like it is!

I realise now that the DB9 and DBS are very different cars as AM said they were, they're coming from a very different place with a different target market. I isn't everyones dream to go from a Vantage to a DB9 in the same way it isn't every DB9 owners desire to go to a DBS (I it mine I hasten to add!). I always thought the DBS should have been known as the DB9 'S' or DB9 Vantage but see why they made it an entirely different car.

I confess to having a bought a DBS carbon bonnet today which is being fitted to my 9 and painted next week. It is the subtlest panel on the DBS so will look rather good on the DB9 I think without being too wannabee which would happen with the bumpers and skirts. The point is, the engineer who finally gave me the answer as to whether it would fit asked of Aston what they did to make the DBS. The response was 'we just bolted bits on until it looked right'. How very Khan...

[bogie]

not for me thanks...one of the appeals of the Vantage (and Astons in general) is their useability ...as soon as I stick on a front spoiler and lose ride height that goes out of the window....add some bling wheels to ruin the ride with even more low profile tyres

...the carbon rear undertray and the N400 sills I do think I nice mods though

[mikey k]

EpsomJames said:

I find the comments to the Kahn kit very interesting.

Ignoring the lowered ride height and slightly pimped wheels the Kahn kit is not that far removed from the look of the DBS. So I take it that DB9 owners are not taken with the looks of the DBS?

IMO the more muscular looks of DBS/Kahn lend themselves better to the overall dimensions of that VH platform which (again IMO) doesn't quite gel as well as the Vantage dimensions.

Don't get me wrong though, I wouldn't consider doing that to a DB9 as I prefer to keep my cars as standard, just that I think it looks better.

TBH I prefer the new Virage kit to the DBS which is abit "kahn like" IMHO
I also feel the same about the Vantage S/V12
I much prefer the N400 sill to the Vantage S/V12 as the upward curve implies forward motion and looks far more graceful. DBS suffers the same angles as do ALL the after market kits

[SirVandru]

You guys are cracking me up, was that really not a single approval?

Lets brake it down, would you guys and a gal really not consider non Aston Martin branded wheels?

[Good Soil (Pete)]

Ok Ok I'll be the first to say I like the first set of wheels (will that help)

Love the tiny tiny low profile tyres......I don't want them as I like my wheels but I do like them!

[George H]

SirVandru said:

You guys are cracking me up, was that really not a single approval?

Lets brake it down, would you guys and a gal really not consider non Aston Martin branded wheels?

Personally I wouldn't put anything that isn't OEM on my car. Especially wheels.

[yeti]

SirVandru said:

You guys are cracking me up, was that really not a single approval?

Lets brake (sic) it down, would you guys and a gal really not consider non Aston Martin branded wheels?

It's not the branding of them, I genuinely am not a fan of the designs posted and also they are way too big. Any understanding of how tyres and suspension components work in harmony would be blown out of the water with those.

As to non-OEM on my car - I really don't have a problem with it. I will replace with anything better I can find, Aston work to a budget so there is always a chance to improve certain bits and bobs without destroying the ethos of the car. If a lighter and better wheel than the sports pack came along, on it would go. However, I think it's the most perfect alloy wheel I have ever seen so that's not gonna' happen

[Mr Aston Martin]

That's so wrong on so many levels.




It's the automotive equivalent of plastic tits.

[MrOrange]

SirVandru said:

You guys are cracking me up, was that really not a single approval?

Lets brake it down, would you guys and a gal really not consider non Aston Martin branded wheels?

I think most would agree that changing wheels should have a purpose, namely, to improve on something that was not quite right (or available) at the time of manufacture so with wheels:

1. Sharpen up the steering or feel (lighter, stiffer?)
2. Improve the ride (smaller ones, taller profile tyres, narrower?)
3. Increase lateral grip (cut slicks, but that would need different damping rates, maybe?)
4. Reduce maintenance (replacement or damage) costs - cheaper wheels would work unless they destroyed any of the above
5. Make it look better (from the outside, which is what other people see, might be happy for a trade-off on any of the above)
6. To be different (yup, Kahn and Manstey have that market covered)

So unless (IMHO) the non-branded wheels fitted the needs you wouldn't seriously hamper a £100k car with a set of huge offset 20" specials; would you?