Aston Martin V8 Vantage Repair

Aston Martin V8 Vantage Repair

This weekend we undertook a quick repair on this beautiful Aston Martin V8 Vantage. The car was brought to us with a loose roll bar cover situated in the leather dome behind the drivers seat, the customer also told us that he could hear a rattling when he folds and puts up the electric roof.

When we had the car on site we immediately set to removing the cover to see what was going on underneath, once we had located all the relevant screws holding the cover in place we removed it to discover that a couple of the retaining screws that hold the electable part of the cover (The bit that actually allows the roll bars to be deployed) were missing. After much fishing around inside the lid with a magnet we managed to recover the screws and refit the cover in place properly.

We quickly put everything back together again and gave the car a quick clean to ensure the owner would be extra happy when he came to collect the vehicle a bit later that morning.

The customer was over the moon about both the time it had taken and the cost as it seems we are somewhat less expensive than an Aston Martin dealership.

Diagnose and repair of Range Rover steering column

Diagnose and repair of Range Rover steering column

With this Range Rover Steering column repair we firstly had to identify the reason behind the steering columns lack of movement. On this Vogue model the Range Rover has an electrically adjustable steering column that allows you to set the steering wheel position, when you turn off the engine the wheel retracts automatically right back to the dashboard allowing easy exit and entry, when you start the engine again the wheel returns to your preferred pre-set position automatically.

Upon investigation we found that the thread in the plastic mounting had been completely worn away, when checking with Range Rover for parts we discovered that a replacement would cost over £1500.00 and so we had a replacement part fabricated in aluminium (shown in the image alongside the worn plastic part) for a fraction of the cost and returned the car to the customer with a fully functioning steering column.
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