Are Multi-brand Mechanics Good Enough for Your Aston?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ม.ค. 2025
- In this video, Mike discusses if taking your Aston Martin to a Multi Brand workshop for Aston Martin Service and Repair, is a good idea.
We're going to explore whether or not it's a good idea to take your Aston Martin to a garage where they work with many automotive brands. Multi-brand mechanics are becoming more and more popular, but are they good enough?
There are many hidden subtleties which might not be initially apparent to the layman outside of the industry.
Across the Aston Martin V8 Vantage and Aston Martin DB9, V12 Vantage, Rapide and Aston Martin Vanquish ranges, there are many different fixings, fluids, lubes and consumables. Manuals and processes covering how to perform a job, and different diagnostic systems.
All of that complexity spread across only a few model lines, is a tough enough job for both a workshop to manage and a technician to keep control of.
Now imagine a workshop not just contending with all those levels of complexity when working dedicatedly on one brand and a few models, but adding to the complexity with cars from other makers!!! such as Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley and Rolls Royce.
After digesting the information in this video, you will be able to make an informed decision which type of garage is the best suited to look after your Aston Martin.
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Refreshing, commonsense advice there, Mike. Sometimes things just need to be calmly, thoroughly explained and spelled out - as it's not really thought about by many drivers who are unaware of how 'the land lies'. Good job!
Welcome back man.
Hi Mike…I have to agree that there comes a point in time where experienced and knowledgeable mechanics cannot be all things to all manufacturers.
I own a 2007 V8 Vantage and I am extremely fortunate to have my local specialist being the Aston Workshop
They accommodate 2 of the 3 eras you describe as they specialise in cars from the very early Astons having body, engine and electrical specialists and the same for cars up to the Mercedes era and provide an excellent service for us northerners (I mean proper ones not those from Manchester which seems to be where a large part of the southern population think the north is!🤣)
So you are right that even within the AM marque there is a huge range of expertise required let alone another brand…let’s keep it in the family as much as possible 👍
There’s a significant lack of dedicated shops in the UK, making owners who struggle to book in somewhere dedicated, consider a generic garage.
17 franchised dealers and probably 10 Indi garages with varying pedigree. Means at absolute most that’s 30 shops for about 15k cars.
Straightforward geographical split, that’s 500 cars per shop. So with 48 working weeks of the year, that’s approx 10 cars per week. When some of those 500 will need big jobs (engines, clutches, crash repair and so on), even 500 will be saturation for a 5 ramp / 5 man team - but most garages are less capacity than that.
So, and as I know you know, keep it in the family isn’t for the sake of Aston garages being full of work. More like be careful of somewhere generic screwing a car up
So good you are back, loved your ironic comment on the DB12 electronics ;)
Clearly ambiguity creeping in there. You’ve understood it a different way to how it was meant 😅 I rounded off the section of Astons, DB12 the last, stating that they all need electrical resuscitation, not just one model, based on that work-stream being the most common activity in my shop.
Oh sorry, this happens when English is not your first language, I need to listen more carefully.@@BamfordRose
I agree with everything you say as usual. Thanks for putting this video out there.
love the metaphor about veterinary and doctor
Specialist is the way to go 100% when I worked I could do certain jobs with my eyes closed, of course I never did.
sound advice, thanks
I mean, my dealer sells and services multiple brands and they have one dedicated Aston mechanic. There aren't any independent specialists, and the next closest dealer in the US is 800 miles away. I don't have a whole lot of choice but pay $250/hr or do stuff myself.
A dilemma.
For routine service and tyres / brakes / consumables, I’m sure your local outfit is fine. For anything more complex, the cost of logistics to the Aston dealer could be the best option
Welcome back. Where did you Guys disappear to?
Chained Inside a workshop, shooting vids and editing had to take second place to work, but we’re back on it now
I'm so glad you and the Team have relinquished those chains 😅😂 Great to have you Back
I'd always considered the lack of intimate knowledge about a particular vehicle, but never the manuals and parts required. Bike dealers regularly sell and service more than one make.
Yes, the bike World does do that. But I’d always get a Ducati dealer to do belts for example, and a KTM dealer to do tappet shims, rather than allowing those specialist jobs to be done by someone who might not be familiar.
I could be wrong making this generalisation, but my analysis of the bike mechanics world is that it is altogether more competent than the car / big PLC dealership world, perhaps why it works in the bike world?
@@BamfordRose point taken. When my R1 needed service including plugs it went to a well known dealer in Batley. Really expensive. A couple of months later I was talking to a Honda dealer who would have done the job much cheaper. Oh well!
I guess the difference with bikes is there's a lot less to go wrong, so a smaller inventory required.
Thank you.