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MTXM · Post by **MTXM** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 6:48 pm

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.

Post by **Dieselman** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:02 pm

It would be worth making sure the handbook isn't in the fusebox storage locker.

Sam Skelton · Post by **Sam Skelton** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:09 pm

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)

cxprestigeauto · Post by **cxprestigeauto** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:14 pm

The autochanger is in the boot screwed to the inner wheel arch.

Rob

White Exec · Post by **White Exec** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 6:18 am

Sam...Don't tell me you haven't opened the boot yet...

Eddie nuff · Post by **Eddie nuff** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:23 am

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.

Post by **xmexclusive** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:49 am

Mk2 glove box struts just need the ends thinned to fit a Mk1 box.

John

Sam Skelton · Post by **Sam Skelton** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:47 pm

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.

Post by **xmexclusive** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:29 pm

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

cxprestigeauto · Post by **cxprestigeauto** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:35 pm

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

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