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Re: Hello there
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:48 pm
by MTXM
Well done Sam and I am sure you will enjoy owning the car as much as I did! There was a working radio and glove box strut on the car plus all the original booklets when I sold so that is disappointing. I never bothered with the aircon l must admit. Please do keep us posted! Regards, Matthew T.
Re: Hello there
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:02 pm
by Dieselman
It would be worth making sure the handbook isn't in the fusebox storage locker.
Re: Hello there
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:09 pm
by Sam Skelton
Dieselman - that's exactly where it was, I checked en route home in the car today.
Matthew - the radio does now work, having phoned my local Citroen dealer and got the code out of them, I spent my drive home enjoying the Oxygene album on cassette. Am I right in thinking the Clarion autochanger will hook up to the standard unit? (It might have one - to be honest I haven't had chance to go snooping yet)
Re: Hello there
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:14 pm
by cxprestigeauto
The autochanger is in the boot screwed to the inner wheel arch.
Rob
Re: Hello there
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:18 am
by White Exec
Sam...Don't tell me you haven't opened the boot yet...
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:23 am
by Eddie nuff
SGS Engineering of Derby did mine. The cost of the re-gas is £8.50 plus VAT (£10.20) per strut, the return postage is £5.30 plus VAT via TNT. I paid £1.24 via Royal Mail to send it down there. Total cost £17.80.
Re: Hello there
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:49 am
by xmexclusive
Mk2 glove box struts just need the ends thinned to fit a Mk1 box.
John
Re: Hello there
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:47 pm
by Sam Skelton
White Exec wrote:Sam...Don't tell me you haven't opened the boot yet...
Nope, been in the boot and there isn't one there. I didn't know if I was missing something obvious* or if I was right in assuming my car didn't have one - I'm totally new to XMs and thus had nothing to go on! Are they a nightmare to retrofit or not?
*Obvious = impossibly fiendish, like, say, inside the rear seat squab - it's a Citroen and they're not exactly a conventional company.
Re: Hello there
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:29 pm
by xmexclusive
The socket for the 13 way lead should be found hanging on a short cable off the back of the radio.
Put the changer under the front passenger seat saves threading the cable under the carpet and various trims to the boot.
John
Re: Hello there
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:35 pm
by cxprestigeauto
Sam, they are usually mounted vertically on the passenger side inner wheel arch. The screwing in of the box is dead easy. Running the cable along the length of the car is a bit more interesting and requires the removal of the passenger seat. That said nothing beyond a vaguely competent mechanic. There is nothing fiendishly Citroen about it. Alternately as John suggests you can mount it on a flat panel under the passenger seat and loop the excess able under the central console. The auto changer has a 6 cd cassette that you eject from the box and load outside of the car if I remember correctly so you wouldn't have to grope around the passenger footwell too much!!!!
Let me know if you are interested. Personally I'd rather sell the head unit and auto changer as one lot but happy to split if that is what you want.
Rob