Personalised sill plates?
Discussion
Hey Folks,
What's your view on personalising the door sill plates?
Is it cool or naff? Can't quite get my ahead around it
Would personalising them detract from resale value?
Anything have something other than your name? What's the best sill plate you've seen?
Interested what people think,
R
What's your view on personalising the door sill plates?
Is it cool or naff? Can't quite get my ahead around it
Would personalising them detract from resale value?
Anything have something other than your name? What's the best sill plate you've seen?
Interested what people think,
R
Watch out for one thing:
If you order the sill plates at the time of ordering the car, then believe it or not you don't get a "spare" blank set!
So make sure you order a car as standard, and after you get it then order the sill plates. That way you will have the original set to put back when you sell the car.
If you order the sill plates at the time of ordering the car, then believe it or not you don't get a "spare" blank set!
So make sure you order a car as standard, and after you get it then order the sill plates. That way you will have the original set to put back when you sell the car.
nda said:
I had them on the Vanquish - 'Hand Made in England For XXX'. I didn't think they looked naff as you wouldn't really notice them. When I sold it I put the standard sill plates on and now have the memento in my garage.
Which is nice.
Which is nice.
Beautiful collection of motor cars you have there.
_tc said:
nda said:
I had them on the Vanquish - 'Hand Made in England For XXX'. I didn't think they looked naff as you wouldn't really notice them. When I sold it I put the standard sill plates on and now have the memento in my garage.
Which is nice.
Which is nice.
Beautiful collection of motor cars you have there.
I concur - very impressive!
nda said:
I had them on the Vanquish - 'Hand Made in England For XXX'. I didn't think they looked naff as you wouldn't really notice them. When I sold it I put the standard sill plates on and now have the memento in my garage.
Which is nice.
Which is nice.
Nice collection!
Off topic, sorry, but i'm interested after hearing Clarksons (and several other reviews of the Vanquish) views on the Gearbox.
Is it really that bad, or do you just have to know how to use it properly?
No it's not that bad, but it's flawed somehow. The Vanquish S is better - but the original Vanquish's clutch felt extremely fragile. Having a thin feeling or fragile clutch on a big angry beastie like the Vanquish is irritating - but it's not the end of the world.
Driving in London or simply moving it in and out of the garage would get the car a bit hot and bothered and smelling of clutch. However, on the open road, it was great. The Vanquish is an effort to drive in traffic - it doesn't like it.
There are simply some tricks to using the clutch. Firstly lift off the throttle a fraction when changing gear (it is actually a manual box - not an auto) then it will be as smooth as butter. In traffic, pop it in neutral. For hill starts, slide your left foot onto the brake and treat it like a clutch pedal - but only for moving off, don't hold on the clutch.
Jeremy never really liked the Vanquish and tried his level best to destroy the clutch - on one show he was bouncing off the rev limiter in sports mode before changing gear. Yikes! He changed gear by simply having his foot flat down on the throttle and flipping the gears - so it looked jerky.
Down changes were lovely in the car, it added a little blip of the throttle, which, combined with a superb exhaust note, made me do it a lot!
AML Works Service now offer a manual conversion for about £14k. I'm told it's very good.
Driving in London or simply moving it in and out of the garage would get the car a bit hot and bothered and smelling of clutch. However, on the open road, it was great. The Vanquish is an effort to drive in traffic - it doesn't like it.
There are simply some tricks to using the clutch. Firstly lift off the throttle a fraction when changing gear (it is actually a manual box - not an auto) then it will be as smooth as butter. In traffic, pop it in neutral. For hill starts, slide your left foot onto the brake and treat it like a clutch pedal - but only for moving off, don't hold on the clutch.
Jeremy never really liked the Vanquish and tried his level best to destroy the clutch - on one show he was bouncing off the rev limiter in sports mode before changing gear. Yikes! He changed gear by simply having his foot flat down on the throttle and flipping the gears - so it looked jerky.
Down changes were lovely in the car, it added a little blip of the throttle, which, combined with a superb exhaust note, made me do it a lot!
AML Works Service now offer a manual conversion for about £14k. I'm told it's very good.
aston67 said:
while one is at AM in Newport Pagnell, one can ask to have the DBS engine fitted as well
Isn't necessary. Just get the "S" cylinder heads with fully machined inlet ports and combustion chambers to improve airflow, the revised engine mapping and "S" fuel injectors. Et voilà. You got 520hp.
nda said:
Jeremy never really liked the Vanquish and tried his level best to destroy the clutch - on one show he was bouncing off the rev limiter in sports mode before changing gear. Yikes! He changed gear by simply having his foot flat down on the throttle and flipping the gears - so it looked jerky.
I have heard that one journalist actually managed to make a clutch explode on one of the first cars produced. He tried to do a "racing start" by selecting first gear, putting his foot on the brake and redlined the engine and took his foot off the brake
AM said if it wasn't for the CF transmission tunnel he would have probably been severely injured or killed by the shards of exploding clutch From a passenger perspective, the gearbox isn't akward or jerky if used properly, it just needs a bit of respect as with most things
_tc said:
nda said:
I had them on the Vanquish - 'Hand Made in England For XXX'. I didn't think they looked naff as you wouldn't really notice them. When I sold it I put the standard sill plates on and now have the memento in my garage.
Which is nice.
Which is nice.
Beautiful collection of motor cars you have there.
Indeed.
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