Category: Citroen

Citroen DS bumpers polished. 0

Citroen DS bumpers polished.

The bumpers on the Citroen DS were a bit scruffy, so I used the autosol metal polish to shine them up.   They were not nearly as bad as the C-pillar trim, but they came up really nicely with a bit of polishing. The front bumpers (the rears were pretty similar):

Citroen DS major production changes 0

Citroen DS major production changes

I spent a lot of time researching the Citroen DS major production changes when I was buying mine.   For easy reference I put the details in the table below. Obviously there were many more changes during the production run, but these were the major changes that make a difference when buying a car.   This table is for the DS range, not for...

General Maintenance on the DS 0

General Maintenance on the DS

Today did more maintenance on the Citroen DS, including: Oil and filter change Rotate tyres Cleaned all the dirt out of the space behind the rear wings Changed the small ID style hubcaps on the rear for the correct DS type Still a bit of work to get this car where I want it, but getting there slowly. For future reference on the oil...

Preventing a DS Flambé 0

Preventing a DS Flambé

While the Citroen DS can be a rather hot car due to the engine being right next to the drivers knee, it is generally not a good idea to let it get even hotter through an engine fire.   The weber carburettor that is used on the DS has the fuel inlet fitting press fit into the top housing of the carby, which as...

More Citroen DS de-jalopification 1

More Citroen DS de-jalopification

Today I spent more time doing small improvements to the Citroen DS.   The car originally had single side mirror on the drivers side that I think was for a later car.   This mirror was never able to stay in the right spot and would always fall back against the car over 70km/h despite how tight it was.    I also wanted to...

Citroen DS radio upgrade almost complete 3

Citroen DS radio upgrade almost complete

The Radio upgrade on the Citroen DS is almost complete.   It’s taken over a month (albeit only a few hours a week).   Today I properly installed the speakers.   The DS front speaker is a 3″x7″ size which is not very common.  Der Franzose carry a drop in replacement, but it is an original paper style speaker and I wanted to go...

Citroen DS radio/instrument cluster update 0

Citroen DS radio/instrument cluster update

This evening I was able to make good progress on the DS.   First, I was able to fix a few of the issues with the instrument cluster, where the illumination wasn’t working for the gauges and the light for the heated rear window wasn’t working.   (The heated rear window doesn’t work, but at least the light does!) I also spent a bit...

Installing the Retrosound Model 2 in a Citroen DS 4

Installing the Retrosound Model 2 in a Citroen DS

I’ve been working on getting the Retrosound Model 2 radio installed in the Citroen DS.    As this website points out, the DS does not provide a lot of options to install a decent radio.   The little ‘cubby’ in the dashboard is too small for most radios, and the original ones are expensive and not particularly good. I’ve been a fan of the...

Citroen Club Tech Day 2

Citroen Club Tech Day

Today I attended my first Citroen club tech Day.  The event was at Schenk & Co Panel Beaters in Lidcombe.     It was a great event.   I got a lot of great advice on my car and was able to drive two manual Safaris (a 67 ID21 and 74 ID23).   I also got my dash back in and tested a lot...

DS Instrument Cluster 1

DS Instrument Cluster

The instrument cluster of my Citroen DS needed to be removed to fit the new Retrosound Model Two radio I had purchased for the car.    While it was out, I had a few things I wanted to address: My temperature gauge was disconnected The silver circles around the gauges were peeling off There was minimal speedometer illumination, a problem in our world full...

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