Cross posted from another forum following someone asking about buying an Aston Martin DB7:

"I had one for about 8mths, lovely car, although very expensive to maintain, if anything goes wrong you need a deep wallet.

To give you an example, windscreen wipers stopped working, sent it to Broughtons OD, and the cause was the electric motor, that in itself was not expensive, about £500, however it was an engine out job to replace, total bill, just under £10k, sold shortly after that.

Yes they are beautiful but buyer beware."

Coffee in mouth and a joke don't mix!

Dahm cream carpets!

Similar tale....someone selling the Bentley Arnage in my local rag - cost £180,000 and two years later are wanting just over £55k for it. Depreciation. Can't beat it. It kills you instead.

Cross posted from another forum following someone asking about buying an Aston Martin DB7:

"I had one for about 8mths, lovely car, although very expensive to maintain, if anything goes wrong you need a deep wallet.

To give you an example, windscreen wipers stopped working, sent it to Broughtons OD, and the cause was the electric motor, that in itself was not expensive, about £500, however it was an engine out job to replace, total bill, just under £10k, sold shortly after that.

Yes they are beautiful but buyer beware."

GTR's are just as bad, or at least they were a while back http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/127250-accident-dont-do-what-i-did.html

I'm sure Richard knows about this already.

Similar tale....someone selling the Bentley Arnage in my local rag - cost £180,000 and two years later are wanting just over £55k for it. Depreciation. Can't beat it. It kills you instead.

Jus be glad you didn't buy a phaeton as low as 5k now you couldn't but a low milage fabia vrs for that.

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GTR's are just as bad, or at least they were a while back http://www.gtr.co.uk...what-i-did.html

I'm sure Richard knows about this already.

I do.

But for some reason when I looked into it the parts were only £2500 for the three sensors, two rams and the ECU.

But once you add in a front bumper at £1200, a few bits and bobs plus a bit of spraying you are looking at around 5k for nudging the front bumper and setting off the Pedestrian Protection System.

I've no idea where the 11k quote came from, but it seems Nissan sat up, took notice and reduced the price of the parts.

There was also a lot of misinformation in that thread as the cars had only been out in the UK around 6 months and nobody knew them that well. So the story caused panic.

Yeah I seem to remember the owner was one of the first in the uk and no one had set off the PPS. Damn pedestrians!

Yes, that was all over car forums.

Engine out for wipers is just a bad design but I imagine would have been a fraction of that price at a decent Indy.

I read about the GTR pedestrian thing a little while ago. Seems that many owners are now disabling the sensors that set off the system. Just shows that pedestrian protection isn't much use if it costs so much the owners would rather kill you.

I read about the GTR pedestrian thing a little while ago. Seems that many owners are now disabling the sensors that set off the system. Just shows that pedestrian protection isn't much use if it costs so much the owners would rather kill you.

I always think that cars should be fitted with spikes, so if someone is stupid enough to walk infront of you they deserve to get pwned

I've read somewhere that to do a starter motor on a range rover sport is a body off job.

10k for the engine out?

I think somebody saw him coming, saw the DB7 and said prime for ripping off.

you can get a new engine and have it changed for £5k, so I doubt it's 10k of labour to get it out and change a wiper motor, unless the hourly rate is just plain daft.

Main dealer cost?

Main dealer cost?

I very much doubt that.

10k at 1k per hour is 10 hours to take the engine in and out.

I know premium cars cost more to service, but I can't think of anybody that'd pay £1000 per hour.