Roxy the purple DS3

[Jo67]

Looking good.

[paul r]

Looks nice its a shame the build quality still not up to scratch. where is the rust bubble on your car?

[StevenRB45]

Passenger door forward of the chrome lozenge, I totally forgot to mention it when it was in for the service/wheels. Annoying given it'll be a paint shop job so it would be probably another 2 days in a courtesy car after the wheels finally do get sorted.

[paul r]

Have to keep eye on mine. Had a DS4 sport before the DS3 and that had the bonnet replaced and two wheels. Thought the DS3 would be better.

[L22]

My start point and why I don't tend to post photos of it:


Whisper brown is the normal colour...

Anyway 2.5 hours later...





Would be nicer, if all the finish wasn't lifting on the plastic chrome, the wheels weren't corroding and there wasn't a bleb of rust on the passenger door...but it's come up nice.

Had a blister on both doors and its being done on the 6th Jan,but due to the colour they need to do both full side to get a match. also needing two headlights due to moisture build up. Starting to whish I had never seen this damn car.

[StevenRB45]

Had a blister on both doors and its being done on the 6th Jan,but due to the colour they need to do both full side to get a match. also needing two headlights due to moisture build up. Starting to whish I had never seen this damn car.

I'm pretty glad ours is a lease, give it back at the end of three years just got to stop it from looking like a basket case by then. Shame though as when it's all cleaned and tidied it's a sharp looking little car. If it had been built with a little more care and thought it would be brilliant.

Have to keep eye on mine. Had a DS4 sport before the DS3 and that had the bonnet replaced and two wheels. Thought the DS3 would be better.

A pity the DS4 has the same issues, I was looking at them before pulling the trigger on my Mazda and was impressed. It may benefit from a more rigorous cleaning regime, I'm the only one who looks after the DS3 but TBH my car gets the lions share of the care (white is a full time job in winter)

[paul r]

My cleaning is snow foam two bucket wash micro fibre dry towel sonax detailer. Spend 2 to 3 hours a week cleaning the car. My DS4 was perl white and never showed any marks.Wish i had looked into leasing don't think it would bother me so much.

[StevenRB45]

My cleaning is snow foam two bucket wash micro fibre dry towel sonax detailer. Spend 2 to 3 hours a week cleaning the car. My DS4 was perl white and never showed any marks.Wish i had looked into leasing don't think it would bother me so much.

I don't know about L22s cleaning regime but mine suffers from infrequency, hopefully if you wash yours more contaminants on the paint will get moved away before they do any damage, although doesn't sound like it helped your DS4.

Leasing is good and bad, all we have to pay for is diesel other than the monthly everything else is covered, but at the end of it it just goes back. If it was actually a bought and paid for car like the other one it'd probably get more care from me. Feels like washing a hire car before you give it back but we do have a duty of care to look after it hence my having to faff on. Don't want to be hit with a bunch of charges to put it right at the end of the term.