Non DS brand logo on airbag

looxuser

Luckily i've got an imminent appointment to get my bag replaced but the dealership are telling me its not going to be a DS logo on the centre of the airbag, instead a Citroen Chevron aka C3.  Its not the end of the world but the car should be as per original in my view.  What should I do?

paul_c123

TBH everyone knows the DS brand is a failed attempt at creating a luxury sub-brand of Citroen, with 'jazzy' diamonds all over the trim, 3 doors instead of 5 doors, massive B pillars, weird colours and a monolithic dark grey showroom section tagged onto the local Peugeot/Citroen white one.

The customer service is still exactly the same, they won't answer the telephones and spit in your tea.

Since it definitively shows the car HAS had its airbag changed and is now one of the few which is actually safe to drive, sell it quick and make a big deal of that fact. Even if its at a massive loss............your first loss is the best loss.

Wonka_2

looxuser said:

Luckily i've got an imminent appointment to get my bag replaced but the dealership are telling me its not going to be a DS logo on the centre of the airbag, instead a Citroen Chevron aka C3.  It’s not the end of the world but the car should be as per original in my view.  What should I do?

Bit of a weird one - can’t they just reuse the cover currently in place or is it a recall that necessitates a whole new set-up ? 

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Either put up with it, or wait literally years (if ever) for the proper badged part is the most likely answer. The posh badged ones might not be manufactured.

It might be possible to swap the badges over, but I very much doubt that the dealer will do this in the 10-15 minutes of time that Stellantis pay them for to change it.

There may be a minute diminishment in the value of the car with a pauper badge rather than a posh one, but you'd need to quantify it in ££ to claim anything, and tbh they are doing you a favour (possibly saving your life) by changing it quickly.

Mildly_Miffed

looxuser said:

Luckily i've got an imminent appointment to get my bag replaced but the dealership are telling me its not going to be a DS logo on the centre of the airbag, instead a Citroen Chevron aka C3.  It’s not the end of the world but the car should be as per original in my view.  What should I do?

The DS3 was sold under the Citroen brand from launch in 2010 to 2016, then DS branded from 2016 to replacement in 2018. There are more Citroen-branded ones on the roads of the UK - even before considering other countries - and, of course, the Citroen-branded bag is right for the much larger numbers of C3s. So I'm not really surprised if replacements are coming through as Citroen-branded first.

You have two choices...

1. Accept it
2. Decline it and wait for a DS-branded bag to become available.

The wait in 2 may be a few days, or it may be indefinite.
If you take 1, then the dealer might be willing to fit the Citroen bag now and then swap later when a DS-branded bag comes in, or they may not. They are, of course, totally identical in all ways except the logo on the cover. All the other bags that will be replaced in the car except the steering wheel are unbranded, so totally identical.

Apart from the badge, the main difference between the replacement and your old DS-branded one is that you are considerably less likely to be actually killed to death by the replacement.

I'm sure a Citroen-badged DS3 owner, a C3 owner, or a less-fussy DS-branded DS3 owner will be happy to step in and have this one.

Wonka_2 said:

Bit of a weird one - can’t they just reuse the cover currently in place or is it a recall that necessitates a whole new set-up ? 

The cover is an integral part of the airbag. It can't just be swapped without dismantling the entire bag, which then needs to be repackaged under factory conditions to guarantee correct deployment.

Herzlos

67 million airbags have been recalled, and there are ~14,000 DS3's in the UK, so some people may be waiting over a year for a replacement. 

I'd much rather take an airbag with the Citroen logo now than risk having a car I can't use for a year in the hope it'll say DS on it. Everyone knows the DS is a Citroen anyway so I don't think it'll impact the value by much at all and certainly by significantly less than not having the recall. 

Mildly_Miffed

Herzlos said:

67 million airbags have been recalled, and there are ~14,000 DS3's in the UK, so some people may be waiting over a year for a replacement.

Not all those 67m cars are covered by this stop-drive, of course, and it is pan-European, as well as quite likely other global markets.

There's apparently about 120k cars in the UK affected by this recall.
There's about 68k Citroen-badged DS3 according to HML.
As you say, there's about 13.5k DS-badged DS3, again according to HML.
The others will be Citroen-badged C3.

This batch of bags is right for over 105k of 120k cars in the UK alone. I suspect the split is similar in other markets.