Aston Martins undergoing service, repair and restoration at Aston Martin Works Service
Aston Martin has a long history of providing factory service to owners of their cars. If you’re a particularly good customer, as the Sultan of Brunei was in his car buying days, the works at Newport Pagnell will even dispatch a factory mechanic and his tools to wherever your Aston might be disabled. Once they discovered that one of the Sultan’s cars had simply run out of gas. Considering the Sultan’s wealth is based on petrodollars, that’s about the definition of ironic. Less well healed (but still wealthy) Aston owners send their car back to the factory, or “works” as they are called in the UK. What is now called the Aston Martin Works Service traces its origins to 1924 and today owners of up to 2,500 Aston Martin cars return their cars to the factory every year for service, repair or restoration.
Aston Martin has also long had a bespoke program, where customers can order their new cars to be built with custom interior materials and custom paint. As part of a significant expansion of Aston Martin Works Service, the exclusive British automaker will now offer their “Works Tailored” program, which will provide the same bespoke service to owners of used Aston Martin and Lagonda cars.
From creating unique colours, materials and finishes through to integrating the latest additional technology, Works Tailored provides customers and their Aston Martins of any age with a route to take an idea through to a crafted and thoroughly engineered reality.
Essentially, A-M is setting up a factory shop that will compete with custom and tuning shops. Hopefully, they’ll come out more aesthetically pleasing than some custom cars.
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When he’s not busy doing custom machine embroidery, Ronnie Schreiber edits Cars In Depth and contributes to The Truth About Cars and Left Lane News
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