07-04-2004, 12:26 AM
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The Vanquish died today
:x Ok, so my dad and I took the car out for a drive and on the way home about a mile away from our house we stop at a stop sign, go through it and we notice that the gearbox is in neutral. We try to get it into first but nothing happened, just stayed in nurtural the hole time. Tried turning the car of and starting it again still wouldn't go into first. Long story short, a flat bed had to come pick the the car up and take it back to connecticut. I dont think any of our future cars will be f1 style shifting/paddles.
We were very lucky that the car died in the place that it did, if it would have been a busy street we would have be pretty fucked. Oh well, just gonna have to wait and see what the problem was.
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07-04-2004, 12:38 AM
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Damn that sucks...never have been a fan of the flappy-paddle gearboxes though.
I hope you can get it fixed  .
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07-04-2004, 12:41 AM
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It's a mistake like Clarkson said...the should have put proper manual in that car
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07-04-2004, 12:44 AM
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Haha, I remember Clarkson saying that. I'm sorry that your baby died :cry:
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07-04-2004, 12:46 AM
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Or at least offer the option of a proper manual...I don't care if they offer that F1 shit, just offer a 6spd too.
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07-04-2004, 01:09 AM
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the vanquish was mated w/ a crappy paddle system.... im pretty sure that its a commen problem in the vanquish for the paddles to fuck up. so dont discount all F1 style trasmissions just yet! if ur still looking at an enzo you still shouldn' be dissapointed by it.... but yea.... a manual is still the best overall.
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Montoya should race bumper karts and not F1 race cars!
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07-04-2004, 01:13 AM
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I remember Clarkson saying that
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that was in the DB9 vs Euro Train right? and that sucks Vanquish is awesome
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07-04-2004, 02:36 AM
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^^^ No, it was the episode where he and Damon Hill test out the Ferrari 575 and the Vanquish.
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07-04-2004, 02:55 AM
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Thats a shame, sorry for you, I know its difficult too see a Vanquish dead!!! :cry:
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07-04-2004, 04:34 AM
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It's actually a fairly good system in the vanquish. I don't like paddles personally, but 10 to 1 either your clutch overheated or your tranny ECU quit on you.
BTW, it's a magneti marelli tranmission.
--Dan
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07-04-2004, 05:13 AM
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I like paddles, and think it looks interesting to drive a car with paddles.
The only thing I really have against it, is if the manual looks beatiful as in all Ferraris.
Sorry to hear about your Vanquish.
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07-04-2004, 06:43 AM
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I remember Clarkson saying that that gearbox is very bad , teh 575 one is much better , but dont think is a big problem , all those electronic shits can be corrected with a software
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07-04-2004, 06:48 AM
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//.... I dont think any of our future cars will be f1 style shifting/paddles. ...//
Bye bye Enzo? 
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07-04-2004, 11:46 AM
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actually clarkson said it both episodes but most with the db9... i also asked a guy at a dealer about it and he said frankly that its pretty true... most of their repairs on that car were from the paddle shift failing....
boba... the tranny is good your right... same as ferrari... but its the relays from the paddle to the trans that gets killed... thats y its stuck in neutral...sucks big ass though.
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Montoya should race bumper karts and not F1 race cars!
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07-04-2004, 01:03 PM
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Sorry to hear this, budagboy. That is bad news. Maybe a DB9 with manual gearbox will do the trick. Or the automatic of course, JC liked that one better than the mechanically operated manual of the Vanquish.
Hope she'll be up and running soon...
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