Thread: 1993 Oltcit Club 12TRS

What is the Oltcit? A Romanian Citroen?

in a few words
in the 80's Citroen has came with a prototipe of this car,and the place suitable for building was in romania(precisely somewhere near Craiova city)
and they start the mass production in 1981 with 3 moddels
Club- flat four engine(1129cm³,4speed manual gearbox)
Special- flat 2 angine (652 cm³ , 4 speed manual gearbox{this one is a very short shift gearbox specialy designed for this little engine)
And finaly Club 12TRS(or AXEL12TRS) this one has a flat four engine(1229cm³ , 5speed manual gearbox)

Comparing to other cars made in the 80" this one barely seems to be a car but now has become a rare car,we have a forum of our own,from time to time we gather in diffrent places in the country

if you want to see more
http://forum.oltcit.ro/viewforum.php?f=34
that is the side of the forum where are described some of the members cars(including mine's )

Interesting! I guessed Citroen because of the "cit" in the name. It's neat to see that you're driving a classic.

That site would be easier for me if I had language skills beyond English, a little German, even less Spanish, and a smattering of French and Vietnamese phrases, almost all of which have slipped away with disuse.

I did go to Wikipedia, and found a small amount of information on Oltcits there, plus a few links.

our forum has a small part in english(for the people outside romanian teritory,because this car was eported in europe and south america) most topics in the forum are in romanian language...
when i bought the car looked like this
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i think i've made a small "face lift"
i've installed electric power windows,central door locking ,alarm,a decent audio sistem,now the carpc
now i'm thinking to mount some air conditioner system(in the summer the temp inside the car comme near 40degree celsius...kinda hot )

Originally Posted by julaikos

. . . now i'm thinking to mount some air conditioner system(in the summer the temp inside the car comme near 40degree celsius...kinda hot )

Sounds like you need air conditioning; that works out to about 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Whew! I hope the aftermarket air conditioning systems you can get in Romania are better than the ones here in the USA. I've seen a few that were miserable -- in addition to being expensive, they didn't work very well. Can you get a factory system from a somewhat similar vehicle?

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If you can provide more detail on what you did to produce your new panel, and perhaps what you plan to do to get the 8-inch screen in there, it would be interesting.

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What navigation software are you using in Romania?

rdholtz 10x for the tip
for the AC system i will try to use the factory system from a Daewoo Tico(or Matiz) it's a long way to get it work...i'll see what i can do

about the 7" screen
here are some old pictures of my car

when i'll have the 7" display i will make another plastic panel where it would be mounted the lcd but untill then...i will "enjoy" the 5" display :|

@lxt_123 now i use Igo2006 for pc ...if i had an better processor it could use easely autoroute from Ms

hello again after...~3 months
i've manage to buy a broken display fujitsu siemens laptop
amd athlon 2800+ (2.2ghz) processor
512mb ram
60Gb hard drive
combo dvd/cdrw
s3prosavage video adapter with svideo out
no battery,no power adapter... for aprox 50 euro


and
from the display i've made a nice keyboard

then,an aluminiun case,a mouse from the laptop touchpad

i had to made myself a new inferior dashboard(better say,modify )
and after many sleepless nights,it was done

i have'nt got a vga displayi se on ebay every day,at 100-150$...but the cost to have him shiped here in romania adds another 60-70$,and in europe the prices are very high (starts from 250 euros)...

a little update

now i have a 7" display(no touchscreen,yet) and a powermate knob from griffin







i'm surprised that the laptop HDD is working fine,considering the rough roads from romania and the hard suspension my car has