Citroen C5 - Speaker upgrade, rear window tricks, chips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2021
- I upgrade the speakers on my Citroen C5, replacing blown mess with a pair of Alpines - which aren't entirely problem free.
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Don't blame Alpine, they knew the speakers were going to HubNut so they added a little complication to the mix.😂😂😂
The Cone of Distortion was strong on that speaker!
… and is now a full-blown Cone of Silence.
🤣 that has got to be one of the best Star Wars misquotes ever, brilliant!
@@chrisdowns1987 The balance has been restored!
That needs to be on a tee-shirt 😆
Before recycling the old speakers remove the magnets for future use,I once dropped my keys down a drain and said magnet on a string recoverd them in no time.
Not your car keys I hope. My friend had his car keys in his pocket alongside one of the famous magnets that Electricity Board don't like. He had to get a lift to work because his Octavia refused to fire because the magnet completely wiped the chip in the ignition key.
@@seancooke4127 It wasn't that bad my car at the time was a 1972 Vauxhall Viva 1.8 so no fancy pants computer's.
@@AR-iu9jv 🤣👍
Often handy to magnetise a screw driver as well
@@paulb4uk And also a nut and bolt saver whilst working on the car.
When you get to a certain age, the "dribble of despair" doesn't only apply to windscreens. :-(
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Dammit, I came here to say the exact same thing! 😂
So true, solo bloody true
You've "treble"'d the value of the car!
Ba-dom-tish
I thank you, I'm here all night ;)
Now that’s sharp!
yes but only the bass value
Your long hours behind the wheel to make these superb videos is so much appreciated Ian. We know how much work goes into your craft. 👍
That was unbelievably satisfying to watch the speaker replacement. Hope the kids appreciate your efforts Ian!
Not entirely, as I didn't replace the speakers in the back!
Top work Ian. I has half expecting the tremendous sound from the new speakers to shake the windows out
Much nicer than putting boxed speakers on the rear shelf as we used to do!👍
I fear that the triangle of doom and dribble of despair may have already sealed the C5’s fate?
The washer pump( behind bumper cover) is a single pump for front and rear washer jets has a shuttle valve which jammed up if debris get in.
You could say the rear wiper is a "Wiper of woe"... :P
Those foam repair kits are a godsend if you have a Jeep KJ Cherokee Ltd. with the Infinity sound system. Each speaker has its own integrated amp so OE replacements only available from Jeep at enormous expense, and it's an all door cards and dashtop off job.
Last year i changed the front and rear speakers in my wife's 2005 Xsara Picasso and they looked the same, bought a Pioneer kit from Amazon that fit. I also changed the head unit for one from Pioneer, had to get a interface for the radio to keep the functions on the steering wheel working.
The difference in sound quality is huge and as a added bonus she now has hands free via Bluetooth and the ability to play music and radio from the phone.
I suffer from the dribble of despair now that I'm getting older🤣🤣
Bloody nuisance isn't it
Having bought my first French vehicle a couple of years ago I now own a great many Torx drivers in various sizes!
Know how u feel, I’m self employed these days, last week I did a 8 hr return trip absolutely ruined midway back, and got back to find I’m needed to go and do virtually same journey tomorrow...... still pays the bills. Hope u keep the c5 cracking car especially in estate form.
Entertaining as always!
Well done Ian 👍 it is nice to see that you were able to sort out the speakers in the C5. I would also take a break in long journey even doing a over night stop so that I would be refreshed for the remaining portion of the drive.
I've a 2003 Citroen C5 with 300,000 miles with original speakers. Check the sound controls, bass/ treble etc and loudness plus it has automatic volume control that you might want to check is on, the faster the car goes the volume will go up to compensate for increased road noise. And there is a TH-cam vid on how to repair C5 estate boot hinges the same problem you have. But I've learned with all estate cars is don't leave the boot open longer than needed, you see people at camp sites and hot days with those big boot door being left open. There is alot of pressure on those skinny struts and hinges in the C5s case.
Cheers. Radio has been replaced so not sure it still has volume control.
I went in a C5 saloon once and it was much comfier than my dads Mondeo at the time
Loving the TH-camr jeopardy 'oh no i don't have the correct tool in my hand' - should've gone for an ad break at that point!
Thanks for another great insight Ian on how simple "swap-outs" can make such a significant difference - just lucky that HubNut wasn't around to botch it for ya!
A couple of others have already mentioned, but you did look absolutely knackered toward the end - I wonder if you're the same as me, in that, the older I get, the earlier "late" gets ?!
Stay safe, keep 'em comin' !
All you need now is a 12" subwoofer in the back for those bangin' tunes, yo.😁
Several friends at work had these as they had caravans and they were happy with them! The killer comes when the clutch starts slipping!
Brilliant video Ian 👍
This is hub nut : we dont do the things the right way .Just love that statement, just like all of us youtubers watching our real everytime hero hubnut. One of my favorite channals. Great bloke
Oh how you make me smile chuckle and chortle on a thouroughly miserable wet windy cold winters ....allegedly SPRING, ha ha....day in May Ian. Cheered me up no end. man hugs to you!
You might be able to buy a generic microswitch for the tailgate glass. I have done that for VW and Freelander door latches.just get a good quality waterproof one.
Loving the new lipstick towards the end 😉
Hah, i was about to comment but you've beaten me to it, lovely shade of red!
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yet and another chucklement moment. Ian is the top man really, isn't he?
I always like the traveling part of your videos. So I hope you will get used to it again 😃
You need a new sticker "The rear wiper of frustration"
The C5 definitely looks like the right every day car for you. Roomy, comfy, economical and a Citroen. Radio 2 was my saviour on long car trips, but now here in Oz , it's very average...
Fitted the exact same ones to my 94 Sunny which had the same problem. Good budget choice!
The old jokes about clowns and cakes and Hub nut being wet twice by the wipers liquid never fail.
I can relate. I love driving and did my first long drive in months 2 weeks ago, when restrictions lifted in Scotland and I could drive out with my area AND get a sit-down roadtrip breakfast at Cairn Lodge. It was only a 500 mile round trip but I was knackered when I got home. Clearly i need to roadtrip more to get back into practice. What a shame!
Sinclair C5 yesterday, Citroen C5 today :)
Tomorrow's C5- you sunk my battleship 🤣
Corvette C5 tomorrow ?!
@@-DC- vending machine C5 flame grilled steak crisps
@@jamp12008 Tomorrow we see five cars
@@phiteonn3541 I C what you did there 🤣👌
I have exactly the same mechanism on my 5 series touring with the split window tailgate and the wiper mechanism. Quite a cool bit of engineering. I find I use the rear window opening 80% of the time as opposed to the whole tailgate
A blast from the past with the old Civil Service Motoring Association speaker on the windscreen, had one on my first car back in the late 80s!
Speakers on my Smart Roadster looked the same if not worse. Replaced them with Alpines too!
No need to worry about content copyright playing music through those original speakers, car manufacturers usually don't normally use very high quality speakers, but sometimes offer an upgrade at extra cost
I owned 2 of these and did around 160k in each, superb comfort, superb economy, excellent vids
I used to own a BMW touring (e61) which had the same type of rear door, which I thought was really useful at first, but not for long when the wiper wouldn't engage anymore. Tried fixing it but gave up. It stayed like that till I sold the car! Good luck with yours Ian.
Oh I need some TOD stickers in my life! Good speaker upgrade too!
The alpine speakers are good. Ive used them loads really good value for their performance
I recently applied comprehensive sound deadening to the doors and boot (floors to follow) of my Aygo. Way better bass just from standard speakers. Car feels solid too, doors close with a thump.
I've never seen speaker cones go like that. I've had them melt, but not become moth eaten. Nice job fixing them.
It's extremely common with home stereo or car speakers. The foam just degrades over time, heat not necessary.
That is the most knackered speakers I’ve seen 😃
Travelling a lot you NEED decent functioning ICE. So the speaker repair is a good idea. For me the advent of DAB in cars made it - endless choice of music styles and talk radio to pass a journey by.
pliers Ian, plyers, great for installing those connectors...if nothing else, you do make me feel better about own abilities...or lack thereof.
Usual PSA speakers, ok when new but disintegrate after a few years. Alpines are good upgrade.
1:40 "This is where I should be using one of my magnetic trays..."
Says a man removing screws from a large magnet.
As a delivery driver I use Waze when Google maps can't find the new housing estates, but on longer journeys I stick to google as Waze likes to take you on detours.
“Dribble of despair”, that really made me laugh 😂.
Great little tinkering video for the bank holiday.
When’s that bloomin Rover going? 😂
Had the rear windscreen problem on my C4. Found the pump was buzzing for both front and rear. Had a look at washer bottle and found lower pipe is to the rear window. A fiddly job to get to it but it was full of calcium sediment. Flushed bottle and forced air through pipe and reconnected and it worked perfect until I sold the car 35000 miles later. If no buzzing or sediment then impeller is broken and this will blow the fuse. Best bet then us second hand bottle as it's part of the bottle.
I recently changed the speakers in my Xsara Picasso which were in exactly the same abominable condition oddly enough. Decided to keep one and mount it on the garage wall as an offering to Lord Shonk.
A “main channel” video with no pttchooo. Contraversial!
There are quite a few threads online regarding failed tailgate washers on C5 Tourers.
Most of them mentioned a particular corrugated washer pipe mounted either within the spoiler section of the tailgate or where the hose feeds through from the body into the tailgate.
Waze certainly picks interesting routes. I remember a route from near Honiton, Devon to Birmingham that involved no motorways and an awful lot of country lanes, luckily I do like taking scenic routes.
Citroen washers use the same pump for front and back. It just rotates in different directions. Generally speaking, when this happens, you need a new pump.
i can sympathies with the tiredness Ian. I went to Madrid yesterday , 10 hour trip all round , and I arrived home totally knackered, just out of practise I suppose .. and I only used A and B roads which is far far more pleasant than tiring long motoways.
That wiper setup is similar to the one on the 75 and x type tourer
When I changed the knackered ones out in my Clio, I had the same issue with the spade terminals connecting to the speakers… I found some pliers helped to push the connector on
That's what I did, but was very worried about slipping and damaging something.
@@HubNut I know how you feel! I ended up catching my fingers! I got a car radio company down in Bristol to solder the adaptor wires to the speaker in the end
Was thinking the reason why the C5 was not listed for these speakers is that the C5 appears to have separate tweeters and those Alpines appear to have tweeters inbuilt! But all I can say having installed In-Car Audio myself, the condition of the speaker you pulled out of the door......Wow....just Wow!!
Rear wiper mech looks remarkably like the mgzt-t rover 75 tourer one
Hi Ian, good video, and another job done 👍
My C5 the rear washer went a different way to the front one but I can't remember if it pulled tawards you pushed away or twisted,, but mine may have been faulty,but just a thought.. have a great day, look forward to your next video,
I need to join that support group, my Focus C-Max has a horrible triangle of doom :)))))))
Me too, my Maestro has the most horrendous triangle of doom I have ever seen!
Many years ago, I owned and enjoyed a Citroen BX estate car - and if the rear washer was operated when temperatures were below freezing,
the pipe/tube pushed itself off and squirted out behind the tailgate lining. Perhaps something similar might have happened on your rather lovely C5.
The water froze on the outside nozzle end - then, when the washer was actuated, the tube would be forced off the connection because of hydraulic pressure against the pipe being ‘blocked’ with ice..
You may also be able to open the tailgate glass with a long press on one of the keyfob buttons (assuming that still works). Its a seemingly little known feature on the Peugeot 206 SW so probably works on other PSA cars of the era.
I reuse old speakers as magnetic part holders. Cut off the frame and they make a useful chuck key holder that you can stick on or near a pillar drill.
My old Peugeot 206 must've used the same speakers. All 4 of them were blown in the same fashion, and since my car was a 2 door it was a real pain to replace the rear ones - I had to take the whole back interior apart!
You was lucky ,normally 4 screws ,1screw doesn't want to come undone or want to do up!
There’s a great bakery / cafe in Talgarth in the old mill building, there was a restoration on TV a few years ago.
My peugeot 206Sw has exactly the same tailgate / tail window setup and the wiper has the same motor drive. I think it's a very good system
Hubnut rides again, 😂😂👍
At least now you can listen to all those banging tunes a lot clearer now
More improvements to the Citroën C5, small but essential, especially for everyday living. Not having the rear wiper work properly would drive me insane! Hopefully what is going on in the rear of the car will be sorted in time.
I haven't done much of anything either yet I am shattered as well! So I believe you, and I, are affected by inactivity due to the ong pandemic. Ugh! Because I need to do more!
Know what you mean about being out of practice, i'm used to 8-12 hour days on the road, 6 months of only tootling around Edinburgh saw me exasperated at a 1:30hr each way journey last week. Tolerance needs building up again!
I hope you connected the new speakers in phase, to prevent the dreaded doppler effect from destroying your listening pleasures. Looking forward to more updates on the C5.
Job well done. During which don't litter the tarmac with bits of dirty foam, chuck it in the foot well of the car?
Excellent miles per gallon. The only car I’ve ever owned that came close to that mileage, was my Ford Festiva.
Thanks for another great video, Ian. The C5 seems to be working out for all of the purposes for which it is needed. Is the rear wiper jet, or the hose to the rear wiper, blocked and the screenwash is taking the path of least resistance to the front jets? If you can get some wire into the end and poke around it might fix it. The washer reservoir might be gunged up with old screenwash that's turned to gel. On my car I ran the washer down to empty then put in a small amount of very warm water with bicarbonate of soda, kept running the wash with the rear nozzle disconnected, and it unblocked, loads of thick gel coming out. Just a thought, although French electrics may be to blame...
Good thing your old au fairmont didnt need speakers as the front door ones use a e-torx which takes special sockets set to remove them
Had several discussions with friends about driving distance fatigue after lockdown, definately seems to be a thing
@hubnut seeing as you mentioned it i was gonna ask anyway my 21 plate transit because of smol wiper on passenger side creates triangle of doom at the bottom of the windscreen - do these count :)
Great work! Now you can listen to 'The Lamb lies down on Broadway' by Genesis or whatever album you wish the way it was meant to sound. 😀
I have an early 50s valve radio that's half eaten by woodworm and the speaker in it is in better nick! 😲
My C5 rear washer packed up a decade ago.
Those seekers look even more perished than the original factory items in my 97 Mégane coupe. They have started to go in the same way though around the edge.
Those looked like the same speakers that I had in my Peugeot Expert, which failed in exactly the same way. I got some £40 generic ones from Halfords, which required a little bit of modification to the door and the wiring to fit, but they sound great.
It's also got an appalling triangle of doom, but I think I can modify the wiper arms to get rid of it...
Never seen Mr HubNut look so tired, I'm sure you'll be back up to speed soon.
Like the old CSMA sticker in the windscreen
how about doing internal triangle of doom stickers, so they can be placed in the triangle.
I wish you had a 453 Smart Fortwo .. i need to remove the front bumper, front fenders and door skin to remove the interior door panel to replace my speakers.
I plan on wearing my Triangle Of Doom t-shirt on stage with my band, if anyone asks I'll tell them it's a three piece prog rock band 🤣
For a second I thought you’d been sponsored by Lancaster insurance again!
The washer pump on the C5 is the same one for front washer and rear washer. From memory I think it reverses the poles (+ and -) depending on if you operate the front washer or back one & the tubes to each go to the same pump. The flow is controlled in the pump by valves, when the valves get old they don’t work properly and flow goes to the wrong end of the car. My one broke and always did the rear. Pump is under the wing unfortunately and not a quick job to do. At that time it was a main dealer part only but may be available OEM now.
Yes, thought it was that type. As it is doing the front correctly, I'm tempted to leave it...
I'm guessing the little hubnutters have had some input on improving the bangin tunes. ( I am also down with the kids)😆