Monthly Archive: February 2018

Citroen DS rear bumper reassembly 1

Citroen DS rear bumper reassembly

The world’s slowest Citroen DS reassembly continues.   Today’s job was to reassemble the bumper in readiness to put it back on the car.   I had taken the opportunity to polish the bumper while it was off the car.   Since the DS rear bumper is made from stainless steel it came up very well with a bit of autosol. I went through a whole bag...

Preparing the Citroen DS boot lid 1

Preparing the Citroen DS boot lid

The Citroen DS boot lid is almost ready to be mounted on the car.   Before Xmas I was able to finally fit the badges properly.   The next task was mounting all the other hardware and fitting a new boot lid seal. The latching hardware and handle goes on quite easily if you have a 36mm spanner.   The only fiddly bit is getting the drainage...

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