Starting up an Aston Martin equipped with the Bang & Olufsen BeoSound audio system is an event. You press the glass key into the dash, the V12 engine roars to life, and the two motorized acoustic lens tweeters rise smoothly out of the dashboard like a piece of modern art. It is automotive theater at its finest.
But what happens when the show is cancelled? It is a terrible feeling when you turn the key and those beautiful acoustic lenses just sit there, dead and hidden in the dashboard. Usually, this is accompanied by a totally frozen infotainment screen and a complete lack of audio from any of the speakers. You can't listen to the radio, you can't use the navigation, and the car just feels broken.
When this specific set of symptoms occurs, the problem almost always points to the Bang & Olufsen amplifier mounted in the car. This amplifier is a critical piece of the Aston Martin's internal digital network. The car uses a ring of fiber-optic light to send signals between the radio, the screen, and the amplifier.
Because the amplifier produces a massive amount of high-fidelity audio, it runs very hot. Over the years, the constant heat cycles eventually cause the internal hardware to break down and short out. Once the amplifier dies, it breaks the fiber-optic ring of light. Because the light can't pass through the dead amplifier, the radio head unit doesn't know what to do, which is why the screen freezes. And because the amplifier isn't talking to the car anymore, the dashboard never sends the command for the motorized tweeters to rise.
Fixing this at an Aston Martin dealership will cost a small fortune. But at UTYAREPAIR, we specialize in repairing high-end exotic electronics. With our mail-in service, we take your dead B&O amplifier, completely disassemble it, and perform a proprietary rebuild on the failed internal hardware. We upgrade the components to handle the heat better, ensuring it doesn't happen again.
When we ship the repaired unit back to you, you simply plug it in. The fiber-optic ring is instantly restored, the screen unfreezes, the music plays beautifully, and most importantly, your acoustic lenses will rise to greet you the next time you start the car.