The DS can now take its own temperature

Ever since I bought the DS I had wanted to have a working temperature gauge. DS Temperature gauges are quite rare – only sold as standard in cold climates and on some high end models. My car had received a replacement instrument cluster some time in the past, but since the car was not sold with the gauge, the wiring was not present. Luckily the manual explains how to wire it up and the sensor is readily available.

I had already done the wiring behind the instrument cluster, so today I needed to fit the sensor and do the wiring […]

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 of speed cameras I wanted to move from MPH to KPH One of the corners of the housing was broken off due to the screws being tightened too much

Since the instrument cluster was not original (the […]