Cruising for a bruising
If a picture paints a thousand words, I’d need to change my name to Tolstoy – or is it the other way around? I can’t decide. Either way, the damage to our poor old DS3 was somewhat worse than we first thought and Matt Summerfield, proprietor of our ‘go to’ bodyshop – Body Motor Works in Chesterfield – gave me a ring first thing on Monday as I was heading over. “We’re going to need to do a proper estimate on this – it’s much worse than we thought and the sill is a real mess”, he said.
Arriving shortly after, the DS3 was already on jacks and being given a look over. The wing and door we knew about and if it were just that then the bill would have been in the high hundreds unless of course we could find panels in the right colour without the inevitable storage dents and scratches. No chance of that and you can check eBay as we did – there’s not much about.
The problem was the sill on the offside that had really been in the wars. We knew about the dent at the rear but what the BCA photo didn’t show was that it was completely bent out of shape with the inner wheelarch tub split away – it was touch-and-go whether it would pull out
