Towbar

[Bigfeet]

Ben, you got a heat gun at all?

Use the heat gun to warm up the metal, can make it easier to shift when stuck.

[Bensds3]

Hair Dryer?

[Jimbob]

Put a caravan on it and drive away very quickly - it will probably separate then.

JB

[Bensds3]

You need to press it in and rotate. I suppose if i have a trailer hooked to it and leave the stand slightly off the ground the weight would help. Would be risking your arm though hah!

[manicm]

Had a towbat fitted to my c3, for cycle rack dutys and picked up the thule euroway for taking 2 mountain bikes. TBH it works a treat very impressed, just one thing i know the c3 an ds3 rear exhaust is pretty much in the same place, any of you guys use exhaust extra bit which changes the direction of the exhaust to prevent overheating on the cycle rack or whatever else your towing?? or just leave it be? i like the chrome finish of the exhaust.

[johnsop1]

Have a towbar ready to fit. Have looked for instructions on here - might be daft but I can't see any anywhere.

I have instructions with my towbar (Bosal Detachable) but do I need to jack the rear up?

Do I need to remove the rear bumper

Is the rear bumper easy to remove? I take it that you need to do that to fit a towbar.

Any help would be really appreciated. If there is a link - could you give it to me?

thank you.

[Bigfeet]

Not sure about the bumper just don't splice into the rear lights.

[Ds3 guru]

I have fitted a tow bar , piece of piss !! Lol , I cut the rear diffuser very slightly you can't see it , can tow jet ski now happy days !!

[diggy9186]

If you're thinking of fitting a tow bar to your DS then I can help you out a bit since I've just fitted a Westfalia detachable tow bar to my DSport.

http://www.pfjones.co.uk/tow-bars/to...k-towbars.html

I use it for a ball mounted mountain bike carrying rack and for towing a dirt bike trailer, but not a caravan or anything really heavy – more on this later!

Fitment is very straight forward and requires only a modest bumper cut which is in fact just the removal of a piece of the black part of the rear valance. The required cut is marked on the inside for you already, and it easily detaches from the bumper so you can jig saw the piece out on your work bench.

The result is very tidy and neither the 7 pin socket nor the socket for the ball is prominent when not in use

If I could add images, or even get them into my gallery I would – I’ll post them when I find out how!

I thought about the electrics for quite a while – ideally (and perhaps certainly if you were towing a caravan) you would use the Citroen kit which costs as much as the tow bar, and according to various websites is so sophisticated that it taps into various control systems such as ESP, and other ECUs to tell the car that it is towing and re-configure it accordingly.

Also when you pull the grills in the boot to access the wiring you’ll find a warning sticker telling you that ‘eet is forbidden to draw more zan a few milliamps from ze wiring M’sieur’

Anyway I spoke to a few suppliers who all told me that it would be perfectly acceptable to use a 7 way relay to safeguard the car’s wiring so I used the PCT relay bought off ebay for £26 instead of £80 from PCT

http://www.pct.eu.com/automotive/Fit...df/ZK3000A.pdf

I used these Posi taps to connect to the car wiring – so much better than Scotchlocks

http://www.performancemotorcare.com/...0288#aPMC00288

The relay requires a fused power supply which I initially thought was going to have to come directly from the battery which would have meant feeding a wire from the engine compartment into the interior of the car! No way! However if you open the fuse box in the glovebox you will find a permanent 12v supply block at the bottom left with, in my case a heavy feed cable and only one light gauge connection. I connected the relay via a fuse to that block and ran the feed behind the sill trim into the boot.

I’m only using a full LED trailer board so current draw is minimal.

Oh the only other trick is to get the 7 core cable from the socket into the boot – there’s a few taped off holes that you can use but there is an inner and outer skin and the holes I used didn’t line up but perseverance paid off.

PLEASE NOTE – DON’T TAKE ANY OF THIS AS GOSPEL - WHATEVER YOU DO IS AT YOUR OWN RISK – JUST THOUGHT I’D TELL YOU ALL WHAT WORKED FOR ME

Hi i am wondering if you can help me out with ds3 towbar fitment ? Thanks dan

[Dangerousfish]

Hi i am wondering if you can help me out with ds3 towbar fitment ? Thanks dan

What stage of fitment are you having issues with Diggy?

[diggy9186]

Hi danger well all seems simple enuff but were the 2 bolts would need to go on the chassis they done seem to have been drilled out at factory took the tape off as it says to but there is no holes drilled with thread there scored like you wud see in a metal back box u use doing electrics on a house if you understand me im tryinh to find out if i have to drill this or punch it if you get me thanks diggy

[Dangerousfish]

Hi danger well all seems simple enuff but were the 2 bolts would need to go on the chassis they done seem to have been drilled out at factory took the tape off as it says to but there is no holes drilled with thread there scored like you wud see in a metal back box u use doing electrics on a house if you understand me im tryinh to find out if i have to drill this or punch it if you get me thanks diggy

Any chance of a pic?

[diggy9186]

Hi i dont currentley have a pic but can get one for tomozs if thats ok

[diggy9186]

Im just trying to get a pic sorted for you

[diggy9186]

Hi danger i have a pic not best but hope it helps u