French Car Forum

Hi all-

Just another noob here, a Yank by way of Aussiefrogs. I've been fooling around with French cars here in California for too many years, now to the point that I work on the US-market Citroen Ds. I might even be useful enough to help with some of the questions for the older stuff.

from across the 'pond'

Ay up!

Or should that be Hi, y'all!

I used to do a bit on US spec DSs while resident in Central Mississippi.

Hey all- thanks for the welcome. I'll be looking in from time to time, see what's going on. I can't help too much on the newer (post 1975!) stuff, but I'll do what I can.

Or should that be Hi, y'all!

Actually, I'm a bit further west than that, in SoCal. Sentiment is nice, though- thanks

Given that 2001 is an "old" car in the UK, I reckon you can count the Dee experts on barely more than a single hand.

Be warned in advance:

Dieselman here, is not the same person as Dieselman on AussieFrogs. Ditto for citronut and PeterT. It gets confusing at times.

Omigodi'mbeingstalked!!

No, not at all.

I had to set my user profile to invisible on that other forum, simply because whenever I logged in, someone would call me. I greatly resent others making assumptions about my "availability" for discussion, even though I may be polite about it at the time.

Welcome Hotrod Good to have you here!

hi and welcome Mr H Rod

from the real citronut not the cloned version

addo wrote:
Be warned in advance:

Dieselman here, is not the same person as Dieselman on AussieFrogs. Ditto for citronut and PeterT. It gets confusing at times.

two of me what ever next

spoz id better do them for copy rights

Ay up.

2 of me? That'd be the end of the world! One of me's enough!

Hello welcome to the french car forum.

For all who have said 'Hi!', thanks, and hello back to you. It's going to be a bit before I'm actually settled in, but the welcome helps rather a lot.

I've already chimed in on an XM thread, but the area of expertise is having been a car sparky for a couple of years, DS electrical systems in particular. So ask away- if I can help, I will.

Hotrodelectric wrote: having been a car sparky for a couple of years, DS electrical systems in particular. So ask away- if I can help, I will.

so is that the Goddess/magic carpet or the Euro box Ds

citronut wrote:

Hotrodelectric wrote: having been a car sparky for a couple of years, DS electrical systems in particular. So ask away- if I can help, I will.

so is that the Goddess/magic carpet or the Euro box Ds

Usually the US market stuff. I got involved in that because a couple of friends and I were talking at Rendezvous a few years ago. It came about at the right time because I had grown weary not of electrifying customs, restorations and hotrods, but because of dealing with high-strung, high maintenance egos who oddly had the toughest time paying the bill when the work was done. Guys who lived in 5M houses with all the toys a man could ask for, and they would quibble over 400.00 worth of work on their 200K plastic fantastic me-too '36 Ford-with-a-Small Block Chevy.

I had better stop here, or I am going to go into a full-on rant that will make my time here at FCF short-lived.

Let's just say I love the DS enough to try and help keep them on the road, no matter where.

Hotrodelectric wrote:Guys who lived in 5M houses with all the toys a man could ask for, and they would quibble over 400.00 worth of work on their 200K plastic fantastic me-too '36 Ford-with-a-Small Block Chevy.

Big mouths, small men, that type. It's spreading here, too.