PROBLEMS With Our ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE!?

[york-fabianraabe]

Don't want to be harsh but I think you have the wrong mindset for the car. You niggle about minor things and that spoils your enjoyment. This is made even worse by your friends who "warned" you, a self fulfilling prophecy. See it that way you have one of the most beautiful, very powerful, very capabale, quite rare cars that most importantly has a "soul". And yes it has quirks, so (most likely) have you and the people around you. Perfection is generic and boring and that is the way we are going with cars if we niggle too much...

[thegothicprince]

You bought a High Performance car, with pretty much race brakes....and you're complaining about them squeaking? That's what they do until you get heat in them.

[CometComment]

"Good brakes are suppose to squeak!" - Porsche.

[babyblu]

A bit of a ramble that. The only things I took from this video was squeaky brakes and the engine set up getting to comfort mode. Us Aston owners have put up with niggles, error messages (mainly electrical) squeaky brakes etc, it's one the 'joys' of owning an Aston. But you're right, for the money you paid and the time you have had the car you shouldn't have to put up with it. The day you get into something else, unless it's another Aston, will be the day you regret it.

[dwightmoore]

Boy, I can relate. I had a 2020 Vantage until a few weeks ago. It was Mako Blue, a stunning color and it got more attention than anything I'd ever seen, even my 991 GT3. It sounded great, looked amazing, wowed everyone. But. in 22 months it was out of service for a total of 4 months. 4 different check engine lights, an airbag light, a rattling rear hatch, and a 2 1/2 month wait for brake pads. The car had standard steel brakes, but a set of rear pads, parts only, cost over $1800! I was told a full brake job, pads and rotors all around, would be approx. $11000. The price of the car was reasonable but service and parts were exorbitant. Every trip to the dealer, and there were many, was a matter of days or even weeks. Aston reimbursed me for the four months it was out of service, but I finally threw in the towel and went back to Porsche. I just bought a GT4 last week. I miss the Aston, but not the problems!

[christopherruddick]

As a similar age gen Vantage owner:
Brakes - take it somewhere quiet get up to a decent speed and brake heavily, low speed build up will cause them to squeak. In fairness to AM it does state this in the owners manual, equally Porsche even did a video on this topic area. BMW's even suffer the build up issue and end up with vibrations under braking, the simple fact of the matter is large pads and discs (and more performance focused) will always suffer some level of NVH issues if not utilised more throughly now and again.

The reduced engine performance - it might be the exhaust valves or the coil pack boots which Mercedes did update to have more of a accordion section in preventing water ingress on top of the spark plugs. Some cars seem fine, others less so, 18/19/20 MY cars may have that issue. You might be lucky and just be able to upgrade the coil pack boot as opposed coil pack.

Additionally other issues seem battery voltage related generally - E-diff unavailable, gear selection faults - usually down to battery voltage. Mine flagged the gear selection fault yesterday for the second time, looks like we need a new battery, in honesty after 2.6k I could be miffed at the 2 call outs for the below item and this time round, but the driving experience is something else.

Oil Level Sensor was my other issue, but that is down to my parking location oddly where it is flat enough to read, but sometimes reads over max. So needs to go in the garage nose in not reversed in.

Regarding the mapping through sport, sport+ and track - most cars seem setup that way now to go through the modes, it might just be less obvious (and loud in the AM's case).

[stevepeary]

You say cycling through track mode is dangerous. As you cycle through you are only Track mode for a millisecond, I don’t really see what the issue is (just my opinion)

[jimbryan]

Have same car and it’s done 7000 faultless miles. Love it. Had 911’s which are great and point to point will be faster but in Vantage you can burble as well as play, whereas 911’s feels like you need to push more to enjoy. Recommended by another racer who had one and can’t fault it. And boot for 2 sets golf clubs if needed is great.

[fredlee]

I have been in and out of a lot of cars. I think these are relatively "normal" issues to have in these upper level performance cars. It could be that you are simply looking to make a change and looking at reasons to do so. Nothing wrong with that. Every new car that you get into will have similar issues I think. It is fun to get into and out of cars. But in my experience there is no perfect car. Whatever you do, enjoy the drive in good health. I love that Vantage.

[TheSps]

MMMnnn... First time on this channel. Think the vlog says more about the driver than the

[peterchasengnou]

The brakes are performance brakes. They will always squeek. You would need to downgrade to a lower performance pad for it to not squeek.

I had the same issue on my 2 series. Switched the pads to a metallic pad and it got quiet. But not as good of a braking performance and longevity

[SephtheOni]

As someone who owns and dailies 3 different vehicles with race big brake kits, when you are leaving your neighborhood, brake hard a few times. Gets enough heat into them in my opinion to stop the squeak for a while. This also worked on the 21 Vantage I test drove a while back.

[martingore]

Lexus LC500 went out in one yesterday as the neighbors has brought one. Lovely

[Cfullington]

The brake noise is 100% going to be the composition of the pads. Carbon pads are particularly bad at it. Get different pads and it will go away. Im looking into getting one of these so the video is helpful. Thank you.

[lukereeves]

The noise sounds something special, the interior for the cost seems a bit… basic. I suppose it really depends what you want from a car!

[peppermintmk]

It’s a shame we have these Niggles James. It was an absolute pleasure to have dealt you the dream Aston Martin. We certainly tried to put it right. The main reason for squeeking brakes is a build up of compound on the pads that builds up and almost makes the pads have a surface thats almost like glass. Usually over the course of soft braking rather than the intended heavy agressive braking. Aston Martin changed the pads completely because of this.

If you do intend on changing hopefully we can work together to find an amazing alternative 👀

Connor - Aston Martin Leeds

[gbtivbay]

i like them, but F-Type SVR has 575hp, 4wd & sounds awesome. Im a racer, so im not sure which way id go

[sagetheowlfatfeathery]

I’ve done 11, 000 miles in mine. Use the brakes harder and it’ll get rid of the squeak. Get CarPlay installed if you don’t like the infotainment. I always have mine in Sport+ so don’t have the “cycling” issue. As far as I can see, there’s nothing like it for the money; makes you feel so much better than a 911.

[edmasoud]

I love this car but I am not sure how the long term reliability is. I saw a 2022 F1 edition, and when I asked the dealer about extra warranty they told me it's about $8000 for two years. Maybe it is normal not sure.

[NotJanine]

@Off Course - Some years ago I had a BMW 335d xdrive that had squeeling brakes. As it was a new car, I took it to the dealer and the tech engineer came to see me and just advised me to take the car out and brake it REALLY HARD three of four times. Strangely enough, this worked a treat and the squeeling went away.
Give it a try...