I used to own a GSA years ago - and I'd still say that it was probably the best car I have ever owned, and I've owned a LOT. I truly wish I still had it, but the tinworm got it in the end.
At the end I was expecting a dishevelled yokel to emerge from the derelict caravan and announce “This week, I have been mostly working on Citroens !” before going back in and slamming the door…
When the BX first came out, it was boasted that most of the dash could be dismantled without tools. In the USA, Chrysler achieved the same thing in the 2000s but it was unintended. Citroen have always been pretty entertaining from an electronics point of view but I had three BX models and loved them.
Yes the pre-facelift BX actually featured a removable panel in the top of the dash, specifically to access the instrument panel bulbs for easy replacement.
That us THE best dashboard... in the world! I was fascinated at my Uncle from Norway's lhd metallic green example when I was a child in the mid '70s! He had a DS before that. His patients used to call it the Dr's Iron 🤣 Cheers. Leigh.
In my youth I lived in France. Strange folk. They are very good at making women, wine, cheese, trains. But their cars … constantly breaking down, having all sort of issues, electric, mecanical, but then again, it is part of the culture. If your car will not start due to damp weather, you do some swearing, and then you go to the nearest bistro (never far away) and comfort yourself with a lovely glass of wine while wating for help to arrive (always late), solving all the world’s problems with the landlord. As Mr. Hubnut will put it: “It is French!” And you cannot help loving it.
Just a tip that I use, find a old 12v power supply (most old pc monitors will do) cut the little round connector off and strip the insulation back, use a meter to find + and - and I soldered on the pointed ends of the test leads from an old multi meter. this little thing will let you test most 12v low wattage bulbs and leds. A helpful thing I use anyway
The non-illuminating bulbs may be due to oxidization of the flex pcb contacts for those bulbs(also noticing the choke light doesn't come on) Would recommend pulling the cluster and sand them all down for better contact Worked pretty well for my Lancia Thema
I'm quite surprised that spare instrument cluster has no clock. My family had an 1982 GSA Special from new, and on that car the right hand 'dial' featured an analogue clock. It sticks in my mind because if you were sat in the car with the engine turned off the tick of the clock always seemed incredibly loud! I've never seen one with just the Citroen chevron logo before.
In 1971 my parents shipped off 11 year-old me to spend the summer with our relatives in italy. I clearly remember that one of my uncles had a Lancia Fulvia Berlina (sedan) that had a speedo with a rotating drum à la Giselle. Hard to forget since I suffered a minor wrist injury when we had a collision in that car... Edit: super hero Pschoo !
Early bullnose SAAB 96 and the Volvo 122s and 144 both had rotating drum speedometers in an all in one instrument cluster that also included ammeter, fuel gauge, water temperature, turn-signals and a wind up clock that kept pretty accurate time if you could remind yourself to rewind it every few days.
1. I dig your Sandals - very appropriate to the car, I feel. 2. As you have a 2 CV I think you could use it to bring some buckets of water and soap etc, ( think canisters with lids) then you could in fact wash your other Citroen to make it look less disgraceful. 3. Jiggly wires are not that reliable I have found. 🙂 You may have bulb issues down the track. But all in all watching you change light-bulbs is weirdly entertaining. You have great talent !
Reminds me of my Mk1 BX 1.9d the bulbs for the instrument cluster were a little prone to popping. But I miss the old girl, not the most reliable but such charm and a very comfy ride.
the instrument clusters from many Euro and Baltic spec beaters involved some fairly contorted bulb changing calisthenics. The drive cable for SAAB's 99 windshield wipers gets the award for the most expletives per minute.
The GSA dash with that graphic of the car and the lines leading to the functions reminds me a lot of the LCARS computer displays in Star Trek TNG-onwards, where you'd have a ship master systems display and, much like the dash, annotated lines going to the various ship functions and sections, and often in orangy-yellow too, depending on the series... :P
@@GoldenCroc It'd be Mike Okuda who'd have to be the fan, as he was the chief designer of the LCARS displays (also affectionately called "Okudagrams"), but I don't know what his inspiration was, but he certainly kept it going... :)
@@twocvbloke Yep, I know of the dude, I used to have an official cd rom with just the schematics and info of the Enterprise D as a kid, as well as a few other star trek themed cd roms. The menu systems of those were entirely in Lcars-style. I probably still got those Cd-roms somewhere (I hope, I am not a guy that throws away *anything* ), no idea if they could be made to work on a modern PC though, they probably use something like Quicktime 1.x or so... 😄
@@GoldenCroc You could probably run them inside VirtualBox or the like, using a contemporary OS that the software was designed for (Windows 3.1, 95, 98/SE, etc.), a lot of retro PC gamers who don't want the fuss of old hardware often use such setups... :)
@@twocvbloke Yeah I figured something like that might work if your not overly devoted to try to get it to run natively, and there are emulators for just about everything these days anyways. I just havent thought much about it for over 20 years. Thanks for the reminder, I might well see if I cant find the discs somewhere in the attic. Cheers mate.
Excellent little tinkering video Ian, I love the dash on Giselle, the car graphic reminds me of the Poverty spec Mark 5 and 6 Escorts. Giselle is sounding great.
Talking about different spec instrument clusters reminds me of when my Gran had an F reg 340GLE and my Uncle a C reg 340GL, My Gran got a rev counter and a centre console mounted small clock, whereas my Uncle got a large clock instead of a rev counter and as a replacement for a rev counter you got a "change up" light. Interestingly on the K13 Micra the rev counter is standard.
I'd say that was a triumph. I was expecting to complain that you should have let Carly do the job with her mechanically-advantageous sized hands, but you nailed it Ian. I'm looking forward to some Giselle adventures. Fabulous.
Good job Mr. Hubnut. Nice to get these little jobs done as they can become annoying. On the DS there is a join in the speedo cable in the engine bay, very handy for such jobs.
Yeah - Things were so unconventional when I had a GS and that handbrake I assumed the gear lever would sprout from the headliner or be in the glovebox lol - I have very fond memories of my 78 GS poverty model
Gisele does have a lovely dashboard and she has a wonderful soundings engine too. When she is back on the road, could you please do a driving video of her, just so we can hear her engine. Along with Ellie, two amazing sounding engines. Another good dashboards, my car a mk1 2005 Toyota Yaris, the dash display is centrally mounted and is digital. It's really a good design, it's easy to read with only your speed, revs and fuel gauge. It's easy to check and it's less distracting
This and the CX are my favourite family cars. I nearly bought a C6 as a company car, new, but I bottled it and bought a Saab instead. SAAB 9-5 AERO was amazing.
My father had a GSA (actually he had 2 GS, the 1015 cm3 and 1129 cm3, the GSA 1299cm3 and a BX 1,6 ), and in the last GSA, he had installed the same dashboard with the rev counter, and swapped the original 4 speed gearbox with a five speed. It ran beautifully.
Cant wait too see her back on the road . Ummmmm that mullets coming on a treat , be talking like an Aussie next lol 🤣 Great vid as usual , love those GSA,s only Citroen i really ever liked 👍
Ian the dashboard of the GSAs are like no other 🎉 two words: Awesome sauce! TRON comes to mind😂 Yes What could go wrong?! 😅 story of my life 😂 with my cars, it’s a show I’m not wanting to share at this moment 😅 The Gieselle GSA does have feelings and is great to watch 👍
I once had the dash out of a late BX, to look at the speedo cable I think. Afterwards none of the panel lights worked so I thought a wire had dropped off somewhere. after all what were the chances of about 6 small lamps blowing at the same time? Well I was wrong. It was indeed the bulbs. They all failed at once, presumably due to the disturbance of being turned upside down. Fragile things bulbs, esp when they're a bit old
Giselle has finally lit up (lighted up?) your life! 👍 It's a shame that no one will ever experiment with air cooled engines again. Though there is a company experimenting with twin cylinder compressed air powered vehicles.
Pretty sure that LED equivalents can be obtained now for warning and instrument bulbs, they last longer so the pallava of changing them is lessened and draw far less power. All those 2 and 5 watts add up.
Never underestimate the power of French electronics to mess up something as simple as a LED bulb replacement. I replaced the interior light on my Peugeot Partner with a LED one and it just flickered.
These older instrument clusters were designed with the all-round illumination pattern of an incandescent bulb in mind to get even illumination, the more directional light of a LED replacement could wreak havoc with that and you end up with bright and dim spots. The backside of the graphics overlay usually has fancy dotted patterns on the back to dim brighter spots so the end result is even.
@@Jeroen74 I had a very similar issue with a motorcycle dash warning light. Fortunately the supplier (UK maker & seller) understood the issue and provided 3 variations for me to test in situ. The one that worked best was a cluster / array of smaller LED's (in one capless fitting) that managed to replicate the effect of an incandescent in the particular housing. Not all sellers are as helpful. I've also encoutered an issue where the lamp is part of the functionality of that warning light, changing to an LED changed the resistance / capacitance of the measuring circuit, no simple or cost effective way around that, just retained an incandescent in that one circuit.
@@Jeroen74 Even very small ones have a filament type LED now like domestic LED bulbs and give off the same tungsten or halogen coloured light, if the base is too small for the electronics they clip into the wiring or onto the bulb holder. Not cheap though.
@@misterthegeoff9767 Same here with my Peugeot Expert. I kept trying to wiggle the bulb and clean the contacts, but it ended up failing in a dead short, blowing the fuse. It ended up with filament bulbs back in it, because they work.
I'd argue that it's the best dashboard ever on a car that belongs to someone else. Personally I like a speedo that works on a cable which is easily accessible at each end and a fuel guage which works on a float which also can be got at. A basic temperature guage is a bonus too on a watercooled car. I can do without the rest.
Changing the sidelight bulbs on a 2010 Toyota Camry Hybrid involves removing the front grille and bumper. The bulbs are not accessible from behind because they are tucked behind the front edge of the wings.
Glad to see Giselle coming back to life after her hiccups a short while ago, lovely car especially when clean and shiny! I'd volunteer with the buckets but I live too far away!
I wonder what the noise and lack of output from the Alternator was down to in the end , even if the bearings were dry it`d still charge (and bearings don`t grease themselves) , alternators do whine when under load but not that much , sounds like a bad internal connection to the reg or whatever which has how jolted back ?
I've just done some mild tinkering on my Mazda. Got a replacement seat base for the drivers seat, as my original one had split badly across a seam. Only four bolts I said. Won't be too problematic I said. How wrong I was. It's all back together now, minus one bolt, which dropped out of the hole it was meant to go in and completely disappeared! Not a safety issue, so it's been left out!
Strange you posting this today I've spent this afternoon messing around with non functioning instrument lights on like yours a retro fitted digital dash in my maestro efi I love that Citroën dash
Ian , i replaced 2 bulbs on my mums Peugeot 205 , full dashbout to get to the bulbs that luminate the dash clocksc.......not to bad of a job to be fair .......i was surprised i fixed it !!!!!!!!
more rain and gales this week sep 26, look at oct for some sun looks like 1st week may be in oct more rain mid oct.looks like a another mild winter tho
Never having owned one, I get the impression that Citroën ownership can be a double edged sword. I love the way they're so different from what everyone else was doing at the time (certainly the likes of the GSA, DS, CX,etc) but trying to work on them seems a bit of a headache. "Parce-que, francaise", I presume.
This is great news Ian. Giselle looks likes she's cooking on gas. Changing the dashboard bulb looks a lot easier on the GSA than a 2002 MK2 Mondeo Estate that I did the day before it's MOT that it passed. I really miss that car.
Question for you, a friend and I were discussing the fact that cars aged 40 years and over don’t need an MOT. Something I seem to remember from being a kid badgering my dad about all things cars. Is that still the case?
Second best after a bx digit surely? Certainly for class 6 a back-lit speedo is required to meet minimum standards for legality, although a certain large operator thinks differently.. Would assume the same applies for a car mot.
Nice job, I was a bit worried that you'd end up with a nicely illuminated but non-functioning speedo. It was a pig of a job the last time you had issues with the cable. Just as an aside, have you ever pulled out the cup-holder and found the brakes suddenly lock up? 😁
I must agree, that instrument cluster is a lovely bit of work. Citroen’s motto must have been “Vive le difference.” Fascinating machines!
Lovely bit of old fashioned HunNut tinkering. Great video took me back to the days of the garage and the train whistling past while you worked.
I used to own a GSA years ago - and I'd still say that it was probably the best car I have ever owned, and I've owned a LOT.
I truly wish I still had it, but the tinworm got it in the end.
I changed the speedo bulb in my Omega, I think it was the first part the designer drew. the rest of the car was built around it
At the end I was expecting a dishevelled yokel to emerge from the derelict caravan and announce
“This week, I have been mostly working on Citroens !”
before going back in and slamming the door…
When the BX first came out, it was boasted that most of the dash could be dismantled without tools. In the USA, Chrysler achieved the same thing in the 2000s but it was unintended. Citroen have always been pretty entertaining from an electronics point of view but I had three BX models and loved them.
Yes the pre-facelift BX actually featured a removable panel in the top of the dash, specifically to access the instrument panel bulbs for easy replacement.
A trait shared with my 99 SLK. The dash plastics are literally disintegrating.
That us THE best dashboard... in the world! I was fascinated at my Uncle from Norway's lhd metallic green example when I was a child in the mid '70s! He had a DS before that. His patients used to call it the Dr's Iron 🤣 Cheers. Leigh.
Agreed - my uncle also had a GSA - I was always transfixed by the instruments.
Very cool dash board !
In my youth I lived in France. Strange folk. They are very good at making women, wine, cheese, trains. But their cars … constantly breaking down, having all sort of issues, electric, mecanical, but then again, it is part of the culture. If your car will not start due to damp weather, you do some swearing, and then you go to the nearest bistro (never far away) and comfort yourself with a lovely glass of wine while wating for help to arrive (always late), solving all the world’s problems with the landlord. As Mr. Hubnut will put it: “It is French!” And you cannot help loving it.
Just a tip that I use, find a old 12v power supply (most old pc monitors will do) cut the little round connector off and strip the insulation back, use a meter to find + and - and I soldered on the pointed ends of the test leads from an old multi meter. this little thing will let you test most 12v low wattage bulbs and leds. A helpful thing I use anyway
The non-illuminating bulbs may be due to oxidization of the flex pcb contacts for those bulbs(also noticing the choke light doesn't come on)
Would recommend pulling the cluster and sand them all down for better contact
Worked pretty well for my Lancia Thema
Its not often im genuinely envious of youtubers vehicles but this one, I absolutely adore.
I'm quite surprised that spare instrument cluster has no clock. My family had an 1982 GSA Special from new, and on that car the right hand 'dial' featured an analogue clock. It sticks in my mind because if you were sat in the car with the engine turned off the tick of the clock always seemed incredibly loud! I've never seen one with just the Citroen chevron logo before.
In 1971 my parents shipped off 11 year-old me to spend the summer with our relatives in italy. I clearly remember that one of my uncles had a Lancia Fulvia Berlina (sedan) that had a speedo with a rotating drum à la Giselle. Hard to forget since I suffered a minor wrist injury when we had a collision in that car...
Edit: super hero Pschoo !
Next time you’re not sure if it’s the correct bulb, shine your phone torch through the hole and see what lights up 👍🏻
I like it!
That works, I've done that many a time!
Early bullnose SAAB 96 and the Volvo 122s and 144 both had rotating drum speedometers in an all in one instrument cluster that also included ammeter, fuel gauge, water temperature, turn-signals and a wind up clock that kept pretty accurate time if you could remind yourself to rewind it every few days.
1. I dig your Sandals - very appropriate to the car, I feel.
2. As you have a 2 CV I think you could use it to bring some buckets of water and soap etc, ( think canisters with lids) then you could in fact wash your other Citroen to make it look less disgraceful.
3. Jiggly wires are not that reliable I have found. 🙂 You may have bulb issues down the track.
But all in all watching you change light-bulbs is weirdly entertaining. You have great talent !
The mk1 CX also had rotating drum speedo and rev counter. The DS had the ignition lock lit by an optic fibre cable from the dash pod.
Reminds me of my Mk1 BX 1.9d the bulbs for the instrument cluster were a little prone to popping.
But I miss the old girl, not the most reliable but such charm and a very comfy ride.
Lovely dashboard, brings back happy memories. I’m fascinated by interesting displays.
You could guess it was Citroën even if you didn't already know from the fact you can get a 15 minute video out of changing a bulb! 😊
the instrument clusters from many Euro and Baltic spec beaters involved some fairly contorted bulb changing calisthenics. The drive cable for SAAB's 99 windshield wipers gets the award for the most expletives per minute.
Et voilà ! A HubNut video of 15 minutes with a satisfying result. Hello Happy! to the best and most beautiful dashboard ever made... Marvellous!
The GSA dash with that graphic of the car and the lines leading to the functions reminds me a lot of the LCARS computer displays in Star Trek TNG-onwards, where you'd have a ship master systems display and, much like the dash, annotated lines going to the various ship functions and sections, and often in orangy-yellow too, depending on the series... :P
Now that you mention it, it really is eerily similar in some ways. Maybe the designers of the show were citroen fans?
@@GoldenCroc It'd be Mike Okuda who'd have to be the fan, as he was the chief designer of the LCARS displays (also affectionately called "Okudagrams"), but I don't know what his inspiration was, but he certainly kept it going... :)
@@twocvbloke Yep, I know of the dude, I used to have an official cd rom with just the schematics and info of the Enterprise D as a kid, as well as a few other star trek themed cd roms. The menu systems of those were entirely in Lcars-style. I probably still got those Cd-roms somewhere (I hope, I am not a guy that throws away *anything* ), no idea if they could be made to work on a modern PC though, they probably use something like Quicktime 1.x or so... 😄
@@GoldenCroc You could probably run them inside VirtualBox or the like, using a contemporary OS that the software was designed for (Windows 3.1, 95, 98/SE, etc.), a lot of retro PC gamers who don't want the fuss of old hardware often use such setups... :)
@@twocvbloke Yeah I figured something like that might work if your not overly devoted to try to get it to run natively, and there are emulators for just about everything these days anyways. I just havent thought much about it for over 20 years. Thanks for the reminder, I might well see if I cant find the discs somewhere in the attic. Cheers mate.
Excellent little tinkering video Ian, I love the dash on Giselle, the car graphic reminds me of the Poverty spec Mark 5 and 6 Escorts.
Giselle is sounding great.
Talking about different spec instrument clusters reminds me of when my Gran had an F reg 340GLE and my Uncle a C reg 340GL, My Gran got a rev counter and a centre console mounted small clock, whereas my Uncle got a large clock instead of a rev counter and as a replacement for a rev counter you got a "change up" light.
Interestingly on the K13 Micra the rev counter is standard.
She's alive!
Such a great sounding car!
Excellent. The more you show us the GSA, the more i want one!
I'd say that was a triumph. I was expecting to complain that you should have let Carly do the job with her mechanically-advantageous sized hands, but you nailed it Ian. I'm looking forward to some Giselle adventures. Fabulous.
I do hope you keep this one. It's lovely and 100% you. 🤞🏻
Good job Mr. Hubnut. Nice to get these little jobs done as they can become annoying. On the DS there is a join in the speedo cable in the engine bay, very handy for such jobs.
Coolest speedometer ever. That cool not even the modern LCD touch screen ones can compete in my mind.
Can we upgrade the sandals 😊. Some people have an aversion to feet....
😂
Getting too cold now, so you're safe. For a few months...
Some people out there pay to see that kind of stuff 😂
I love Citroen cars. Doing simple tasks seems so difficult.
Yeah - Things were so unconventional when I had a GS and that handbrake I assumed the gear lever would sprout from the headliner or be in the glovebox lol - I have very fond memories of my 78 GS poverty model
Gisele does have a lovely dashboard and she has a wonderful soundings engine too. When she is back on the road, could you please do a driving video of her, just so we can hear her engine. Along with Ellie, two amazing sounding engines. Another good dashboards, my car a mk1 2005 Toyota Yaris, the dash display is centrally mounted and is digital. It's really a good design, it's easy to read with only your speed, revs and fuel gauge. It's easy to check and it's less distracting
Yes, I definitely will film her next drive, which is hopefully her MOT.
Love this dashboard, I always wanted a Citroen with a nixie tube readout dashboard like in the SM prototypes ! Sadly this never made it in production!
The speedometer with the rotating drum was also found in the early '70s Citroen GS (and the CX as well).
This and the CX are my favourite family cars. I nearly bought a C6 as a company car, new, but I bottled it and bought a Saab instead. SAAB 9-5 AERO was amazing.
You can't beat a Saab.
My father had a GSA (actually he had 2 GS, the 1015 cm3 and 1129 cm3, the GSA 1299cm3 and a BX 1,6 ), and in the last GSA, he had installed the same dashboard with the rev counter, and swapped the original 4 speed gearbox with a five speed. It ran beautifully.
Giselle sounding good. Well done on the dash lighting. Very 70s Citroën 😊
Absaloutly brilliant video Ian ❤👍the simple jobs are the best brilliant
Love that dash! Wish it could be retrofited to my 2019 car.
My dad had a T reg estate version. That had the clocks and dials, with a stainless steel trim. It had an aircraft look about it.
Like a weight scale🎉
I remember the similar speedo in my dad's 1986 mk1 BX- I would love that car now!
Cant wait too see her back on the road .
Ummmmm that mullets coming on a treat , be talking like an Aussie next lol 🤣
Great vid as usual , love those GSA,s only Citroen i really ever liked 👍
Ian the dashboard of the GSAs are like no other 🎉 two words: Awesome sauce! TRON comes to mind😂 Yes What could go wrong?! 😅 story of my life 😂 with my cars, it’s a show I’m not wanting to share at this moment 😅 The Gieselle GSA does have feelings and is great to watch 👍
Because French @HubNut. My Peugeot 205 blew bulbs for fun, and Renault Modus you had to take off the front panels to change headlight bulbs!!
I once had the dash out of a late BX, to look at the speedo cable I think. Afterwards none of the panel lights worked so I thought a wire had dropped off somewhere. after all what were the chances of about 6 small lamps blowing at the same time? Well I was wrong. It was indeed the bulbs. They all failed at once, presumably due to the disturbance of being turned upside down. Fragile things bulbs, esp when they're a bit old
Good onya mate, glad it's all sorted. Aussie Graham.
The best dash! Giselle does sound great. Super car.
Hearing this car run is just joyous ❤
Giselle has finally lit up (lighted up?) your life! 👍
It's a shame that no one will ever experiment with air cooled engines again. Though there is a company experimenting with twin cylinder compressed air powered vehicles.
Very cool space age instrument panel in this car, looks like space ship control panel :)
Pretty sure that LED equivalents can be obtained now for warning and instrument bulbs, they last longer so the pallava of changing them is lessened and draw far less power. All those 2 and 5 watts add up.
Never underestimate the power of French electronics to mess up something as simple as a LED bulb replacement. I replaced the interior light on my Peugeot Partner with a LED one and it just flickered.
These older instrument clusters were designed with the all-round illumination pattern of an incandescent bulb in mind to get even illumination, the more directional light of a LED replacement could wreak havoc with that and you end up with bright and dim spots. The backside of the graphics overlay usually has fancy dotted patterns on the back to dim brighter spots so the end result is even.
@@Jeroen74 I had a very similar issue with a motorcycle dash warning light. Fortunately the supplier (UK maker & seller) understood the issue and provided 3 variations for me to test in situ. The one that worked best was a cluster / array of smaller LED's (in one capless fitting) that managed to replicate the effect of an incandescent in the particular housing. Not all sellers are as helpful. I've also encoutered an issue where the lamp is part of the functionality of that warning light, changing to an LED changed the resistance / capacitance of the measuring circuit, no simple or cost effective way around that, just retained an incandescent in that one circuit.
@@Jeroen74 Even very small ones have a filament type LED now like domestic LED bulbs and give off the same tungsten or halogen coloured light, if the base is too small for the electronics they clip into the wiring or onto the bulb holder. Not cheap though.
@@misterthegeoff9767 Same here with my Peugeot Expert. I kept trying to wiggle the bulb and clean the contacts, but it ended up failing in a dead short, blowing the fuse. It ended up with filament bulbs back in it, because they work.
Excellent tinkering Ian. After all this time the dash looks a bit plain without the charge light on 🤣
I'd argue that it's the best dashboard ever on a car that belongs to someone else.
Personally I like a speedo that works on a cable which is easily accessible at each end and a fuel guage which works on a float which also can be got at.
A basic temperature guage is a bonus too on a watercooled car.
I can do without the rest.
Meanwhile, Myrtle sits at the back in the cold and dark thinking "what HAVE I done wrong...!"
Changing the sidelight bulbs on a 2010 Toyota Camry Hybrid involves removing the front grille and bumper. The bulbs are not accessible from behind because they are tucked behind the front edge of the wings.
Nice...
Glad to see Giselle coming back to life after her hiccups a short while ago, lovely car especially when clean and shiny! I'd volunteer with the buckets but I live too far away!
Super video, just me, those 4 rusty screws on her dash, steering wheel view would do my head in
Suggestion on your no On site water prblem...2 x 20 lt Container's,Batt opp Pressure washer👍
I had gsa special club estate and it had factory fitted pallas seats.
I wonder what the noise and lack of output from the Alternator was down to in the end , even if the bearings were dry it`d still charge (and bearings don`t grease themselves) , alternators do whine when under load but not that much , sounds like a bad internal connection to the reg or whatever which has how jolted back ?
I've just done some mild tinkering on my Mazda. Got a replacement seat base for the drivers seat, as my original one had split badly across a seam. Only four bolts I said. Won't be too problematic I said. How wrong I was. It's all back together now, minus one bolt, which dropped out of the hole it was meant to go in and completely disappeared! Not a safety issue, so it's been left out!
Did you just say "fumbling in the dark with a French maid?"
Could have been wishful thinking?
Its an interesting car, back in the day I saw these about but knew little about them. Best wishes.
Strange you posting this today I've spent this afternoon messing around with non functioning instrument lights on like yours a retro fitted digital dash in my maestro efi
I love that Citroën dash
Ian , i replaced 2 bulbs on my mums Peugeot 205 , full dashbout to get to the bulbs that luminate the dash clocksc.......not to bad of a job to be fair .......i was surprised i fixed it !!!!!!!!
more rain and gales this week sep 26, look at oct for some sun looks like 1st week may be in oct more rain mid oct.looks like a another mild winter tho
Yeah, big storm tomorrow. Thankfully have plenty of admin/merch to keep me busy at home, in the dry!
Never having owned one, I get the impression that Citroën ownership can be a double edged sword. I love the way they're so different from what everyone else was doing at the time (certainly the likes of the GSA, DS, CX,etc) but trying to work on them seems a bit of a headache.
"Parce-que, francaise", I presume.
Not the most thrilling video? I was thrilled to bits to see the GSA coming togther again and hopefully giving you the passion back for her.
I fair love this car❤.... Great vid as always😊
Definitely a fantastic dashboard Ian!!! She could do with a bit of a wash though!
She could. I have no facilities at the unit sadly.
@@HubNut I forgot you didn't have water at the unit
Do we have any volunteers for blindfolded waterboys, so as to protect the anonymous location...
This is great news Ian. Giselle looks likes she's cooking on gas. Changing the dashboard bulb looks a lot easier on the GSA than a 2002 MK2 Mondeo Estate that I did the day before it's MOT that it passed. I really miss that car.
Question for you, a friend and I were discussing the fact that cars aged 40 years and over don’t need an MOT. Something I seem to remember from being a kid badgering my dad about all things cars. Is that still the case?
It is still a thing.
Happy for you! Sometimes you need some luck.
Very relaxing thank u
A win! Well done!
Such a cool dashboard, would love to see some footage of that at night. Always loved the dashboard in my dads Rover SD1 😎
Good job 👍
Almost the best. instrument panel. I think the early BX pips it to the winning line. 😂😎
I prefer the feel of the GSA dash. A BX DIGIT though...
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
Nice bit of tinkering content 👍
Paradise by the dashboard light?
Dont forget to put the grill back on 👌
Totally the best dash ever, a thousand times yes.
Probably would be a good idea to use some contact cleaner spray while you’ve got it all apart
Succes 🎉🥳
I love it when I hear "in this video"
Just a question for anyone in the know but was the flat four engine in the gs/gsa smoother than an inline four from the same era.
I think so. They rev very sweetly, though they can be a bit lumpier at lower revs.
I'd recommend applying some loctite on the shock bolts for elly so they don't rattle loose again?
Safety wire like airplanes
Second best after a bx digit surely?
Certainly for class 6 a back-lit speedo is required to meet minimum standards for legality, although a certain large operator thinks differently..
Would assume the same applies for a car mot.
RTFM, may be? There has to be a chart somewhere! Oh, wait, French, nevermind...
Nice job, I was a bit worried that you'd end up with a nicely illuminated but non-functioning speedo. It was a pig of a job the last time you had issues with the cable.
Just as an aside, have you ever pulled out the cup-holder and found the brakes suddenly lock up? 😁
Because Cupholdeur,,,,
That looked like a scene from James Herriot!
To work on a GSA you need the arms of Inspector Gadget and the patience of a Saint.
Excellent video. Ian love the t-shirt in this video. Where would one purchase one
That one was a gift from Miss HubNut. Not sure where she found it.
@@HubNut Thanks Ian
Very British Problems website.
@@19892CV Many thanks
I would have fitted LED bulbs. Just for extra sexiness zing!
Gotta ask, why wouldn't you just replace all the bulbs in there with new while you had the cluster out?