End of the Road for Richard Hammond’s Grand Tour GT?

in the air, yeah, and then we'll give you a big chance, hit me, we walk on air, we're floating in a motion. SK, I'm about to fart a huge fart on Richard Ham and Bon Martin, okay, Mike start the car, okay on Drive, can you give us some ribs? Mike, yeah, yeah, oh, it's not like that here, make no difference. don't be the differential, don't be the differential, yeah that's there, yeah just be a Duff CV or a Duff driveshaft those are fine maybe just small four figures instead of tall or even tall, I don't like that driveshaft, oh.

Yes look at the rotation on the disc, yes it's making noise now, making noise, yes.suspect for the driveshaft it's knocking on the cre a noise, okay Mike stop there obviously the suspension has changed the gear change so it works at a higher angle, but this one, yeah, it has a little bit, that's quite a bit more L, right? yeah so we could still be at CV could be at CV Jo if we drain it he can drain it if he wants yeah Maxwell good news bad news right now it looks like this driveshaft has a little bit of side play. but let's drain it because it may not be the disc, drain the differential and see if any shine comes out.

I'll stay up here, yeah, yeah, we'll leave you up there. There's no glitter there there's some there but it's not excessive at this point it looks like a dry sha glitch it looks like a dry sha glitch this is good news so our stopper here has a magnetic end and there are no metal particles that's exactly what it's for that it's designed to catch any metal particles that you didn't make, that means we're probably fine Mike, hey, looks like that's good news buddy, oh let me look at it, I think it's going to be a driveshaft job. our oil doesn't shine oh yeah so I guess we're on the money the difference is intact yeah so that ridiculous bill is no longer a little less ridiculous a little less ridiculous can anyone figure out how much an axle costs transmission/hp in an Aston Martin?

DB9 there is a chance it could be a Ford or Volvo part yes, but it still could be nothing, it will still be two and a half, it's okay because it will say Aston Martin Aston Ta on the sticker of all the ones that actually exist. There are numerous part numbers on this that will match my Mondo, it's not a Mondo Mike, it's basically a Mondo V12 okay and my car is basically a GTR. Gary is an Aston V12, basically V12 Mund, not right, our current plans are to film with the DB9 off

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and take it out to show it off so you can see it, that means it doesn't need to be

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legal but in theory how much would it cost run Richard's car through an OT?

Well, he would need a new windshield, a rear window, a roll bar in the front. license plate and a change to the front crash structure that thick frame in the front is almost certainly illegal airbag reinstallations two cats repairs to the power seat so they can move a complete underbody restoration to remove all corrosion and other things that Today I found a new radiator power steering cooler rear driveshaft or maybe a complete differential repair. In the worst case scenario, adding all those parts together, it would cost around £25,000 to make this DB9 legal on UK roads again - obviously a part. that's what the differential is, but you could buy another high mileage DB9 to get the parts list to get this car running again, which is all we want to do minus labor because we have this man-powered Chinese spec, for what a driveshaft if not the D, yes £900, cheap diff fluid, yes £200, we'll put some Moy fluid in the cold radiator, £700 and then a power steering cooler, £200, okay, which means in total driving this again instead of costing around 20 years.

Theoretically it will cost £2,000, assuming the differential is fine, otherwise it's £12,000. Yes, that's good if the problem is the differential, which hopefully it isn't, it's just the driveshaft. It could add 12 thousand dollars to the bill. It will be £2,000 or £1,000, that's a good Park figure to work with, stay tuned to see what Aston Bon will be like.