Definitely much prettier than the outgoing version. It actually looks more like the original 4.3/4.7 V8 Vantage crossed with an F-Type Jag, which certainly works well. I have a 4.7 V8V so a bit biased.
Wow, you go to a place with a name like "AstonOwners" and you do not expect audio from two tin cans and some wet spaghetti. Richard's entire talk is crap, and you didn't even offer up some differing shots to cover your massive sound defects. No subs for you!
Yeah, electrolytics do age out, inevitably, but it's a lot slower than a lot of people think. It depends a lot on how much heat and excess voltage they've experienced; in a well-regulated and well-protected circuit where the capacitors are just being used to control noise and not ripple, they can outlast whatever product they're in, easily. Especially the "tin can" ones used in a lot of products since the 90s; those won't even suffer from evaporation if used carefully.
I've been forced to scrap a perfectly nice 2003 Jaguar XJ8 after the electronics started to go squirrelly. In the old days the body would rot or the engine would wear out. Now the irony is that these are *perfect* even after 20+ years and 130,000 miles but the car is beyond economic repair. I think the future is going to be in retro-engineering the electronics. - I hope there are more like you putting the effort in now. Bravo.
Legislation is the way to solve this problem. e.g force OEMs to release all H/W and S/W design information a number of years after product launch to allow repair or re-engineering.
I'm a former software engineer and now program microcontrolers as a hobby. So my 1964 Austin Cambridge was COMPLETELY user serviceable. True that BMC had the battery wired as positive to chassis which meant the chassis corroded to dust, but that was just BMC. Ford Anglia, Cortina etc had the battery as -ve earth. All cars completely user serviceable. I now own a Volvo XC60 and there's NOTHING user serviceable, well perhaps the door hinges. Cost of service at Volvo? £550. You could buy a new car for £440 in 1964.... :) :)
I have a 2003 Vauxhall Combo diesel van. Its done 475,000 miles. Other than suspension brake wear n tear it has been mechanically faultless. I service it myself Except... The only issues have been electronics. The central locking doesnt work. (I dont need central locking, the key works) The ribbon cable to the speedo etc vibrates itself out of the connections. The ECU died, There is a company that takes your old ECU repairs it and sends it back in a week. £95 +vat
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All the V12 engines, as built, are steel dry liners in that the steel is inside an Aluminium bore. Aston obviously changed some things as they went along so later DB9's are less prone to the "Tick" than earlier ones. The only thing we know that they changed was the design of the small end bearings to increase oiling to the small end. This undoubtedly helps things but none of the changes fix the fundamental problem which is that the liners move, the combustion gases go down between liner and aluminium and distort the bore.
Interesting video. I have an 2004 DB9 so the tick is always in the back of my mind. I assume the next generation DB9 don't have wet liners? Which apparently don't suffer with the tick. The oil capacity increased as the engine developed with shorter-dipstick. I wonder if the additional oil capacity helped the problem. Knowledgeable chap
