[Paul Burridge]

Wow! Those have been worth the wait Richard. Looks like you’ve got yourself a lot of car there and, from what i can see of certain bits, it doesn’t have the tell tale signs of rust and rot. You have every right to feel pleased as punch. As you’ve identified with Glynn, the important think is the chassis as that can be difficult and expensive to fix, but all the bits that bolt under the bonnet – they can be removed, cleaned and painted at leisure.

Based on the dashboard, I would say that is a 1970 model year car – as that dash was introduced for that year. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a ‘1969’ car. The 1970 model year ran from Sept 1969 through to July 1970 – so if it was one of the early cars, it would have come from 69. One of the very first with that new dashboard.

A few things I spotted that might simply be differences between South African and European cars: your voltage regulator looks as though it bolted to the inner wing. On a European car, I think it would be part of the cage around the battery. I’m not sure about that as, on my 1968 car, my battery lives on the other side of the engine bay with a different cage arrangement. In fact, on a European 1969 (model year) car, the battery is on my side too, and moved to your side for the 1970 year. So another 1970 clue.

More pictures and/ or more questions welcomed.

Even if 1970, it has some nice touches that are links back to the earlier Ds. It’s got the iconic push button door handles and the equally iconic dash mounted mirror. Plus it will have a steering wheel with black plastic binding.

[Paul Burridge]

The instructions are as Peter described Richard:

Open free imgBB account for example

Upload image to IMGbb.
From the “embed codes” option box, select “BBCode full linked”
Hover the cursor to the right of the URL pathname that is created and select ‘copy’
Navigate to this forum and in an open message/ end of text, just click ‘paste’.
No need to use any of the complicated options above the text box here on this forum.

Something scary: wiring loom on my 1968 car. The looms are notorious for rot. Someone told me at the GS/A rally this weekend that changing the loom on such a car can add £1000 to the value!

[Paul Burridge]

Yay! Another test: some engine bay pipes.

[Paul Burridge]

Okay. Third attempt to load a photo using imgBB. Petr…ol tank.

[Paul Burridge]

Hmmm. A test post from me of “4 minutes ago” is listed as the latest in this thread – but doesn’t appear when you scroll down (!). I will try again – so expect to see two posts in due course.

It’s meant to be a photo of the inside of my fuel tank.

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Signed up to IMGbb.

Lets try this then. Should be a photo of my fuel tank……

Inside fuel tank

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I thought I’d go to imgBB to see whether I had previously set up an account. Safari can’t even connect to the site! This could take longer than I thought…..

[Paul Burridge]

There will be a link to a ‘classified ads’ area on this site. Though if you follow the link through the ‘members’ area at the top of the page, it’s not built yet.Instead, the advice there is to put your ‘want’ in the Citroenian – the physical glossy mag.

In the short term, i reckon the D forum is better than the online classified ad thing (due to limited use of the Forums) and that the Citroenian would get better readership/ exposure than both. Even better though (for a quicker response etc), would be the D Section page on Facebook.

Paul

[Paul Burridge]

Hi Richard
I use a Mac and an iPhone. I’ve not accessed the site via my phone for a while, but regularly access it via my Mac. I’ll have to try the photo thing (again).

Paul

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It’s telling that Citroen Classics use bonding AND rivets. If you do go for the double sided tape option, it is the back end of the rear wings that will be most troublesome because of their curve, and that is where the rivets are probably used.

The original fixing along most/ all lengths is neither glue nor rivets – but bolts. Actually short lengths of threaded rod welded or braised to a very thin ‘cap’ instead ion a hex.

[Paul Burridge]

You won’t be alone in having four 185s. Pretty common – if not very common. You may need to adjust the bracket that holds the big stainless steel bolt for the rear wings. The one above the rear reflector. What you might need to do is ‘pull’ the back end of the wings out a little to create room for the 185s on the back.

[Paul Burridge]

Richard. Did you see on the tyre thread that someone with an owners handbook in English said that his 1973 car has 180 size tyres on all four corners and that 155s (or 165s) on the rear were a French market option. I suspect that Citroen m`naual 814 – being an English translation of French manual 583 – simply replicated the tyre sizes for French domestic market cars.

[Paul Burridge]

To insert a picture, I think you need to have it stood/ hosted elsewhere – and then you insert the link to your message here. Is that how it works Peter? My budget doesn’t stretch to paying for a picture hosting site.

[Paul Burridge]

There is another recent thread on here started by Justin Riley.The thread just before yours. He was after confirmation of tyre sizes for his 1975 DS20. The conclusion reached was that originally it would have had 180s on the front and 155s on the back. Partly because of cost, and availability, lots of people go for 185s on the front and 165s on the back.If you do really want 180s on the front (I do – for my 1968 car) then Michelin do make them.

Have you downloaded copies of the Citroen workshop manuals yet? Manuals 814 (2 volumes) covers maintenance and repair but also has various technical info. such as tyre sizes. In terms of parts manuals, a 1969 car is covered by manual 562 (two volumes but may be one pdf file), but it’s also worth downloading one of the later/ last parts manuals – manual 648. Have a look at this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tv0b25gpmd5ux8e/AAAhvSwJoeCeptJM3g7TENBQa

There is a blue folder for ‘814’ and another blue folder for parts manuals.

Tyre sizes are on the tenth pdf page of volume 1 of 814. You car was coded as a ‘DL’ vehicle by Citroen and the table shows fora 1969 car, 180s on the front and 155s on the back.

[Paul Burridge]

I’m not very good with facebook either! The Citroen Car Club has a group/ page on Facebook and there is also a Group/ Page for the ‘D Section’ (of the Citroen Car Club). It’s called ‘Citroen car Club D Section” and you should be able to search for that within facebook. It’s a private, members only, group. So you need to send a message to the administrator to ask to join. tell them you are a CCC memberand give them your membership number. If it’s easier, i can ask Geoff whether he can give me his number to pass on to you?

Paul

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