Just thought I’d share our experience and how a remarkable bit of luck resulted in us finding out we had bought an accident damaged DS7.
In march we purchased a 2 year old ds7 opera, which ticked all the boxes and only had just under 7,000 miles on the clock. The only negative was that it had 4 previous owners, however I stupidly was convinced by the dealer that it had come in via part exchange and was likely to have been passed between family members, hence the high ownership (note to self, go on instincts and not what the dealer says!!)
Fast forward a week of ownership and the thing would not come out of french, voice recognition was not working and the system refused to save any changes. I posted on here for any ideas but still had a niggle in the back of my mind, when I found some posts from another member about the same model and year as mine - specifically mentioning damage to the roof. My paranoid self went into overdrive, and I reached out via a PM to this member and asked if the registration of my car rung any bells. To my surprise, he had owned and rejected the car I’d bought due to some serious roof damage, poor repairs and potential water ingress I to the airbags. The member was so helpful and provided me with pictures of the damage which gave me enough evidence to reject the car for a full refund.
So in summary, if it wasn’t for this forum I could have been driving my family around in a potentially unsafe car and faced a whole heap of problems longer term. Thankfully I now have my money back and bought a DS approved used car (same age and spec) with the reassurance of a 2 year warranty. I’m loving the car, but just in case the other one reappears in the market again - AVOID a 1.6 E-Tense opera 4x4 going by the registration KS72 RCO!
