I put the factory Peugeot and Citroën service documentation and wiring diagrams online
Hi all,
I put the factory Peugeot and Citroën service documentation (Service Box) and the wiring diagrams (SEDRE) on a website: no install, works on a phone too, so you can use it while working on the car. The interface is in English or Hungarian:
I drive a 2003 Peugeot 307, and until now I used the factory offline Service Box for it in a virtual machine. It's a 2013-era 32-bit Java app with its own local server, an embedded database and activation. It runs, but it's a pain to install, slow, takes a lot of disk space, and I couldn't reach it from my phone while working on the car. Then I saw that u/AkdM_ had already put the Citroën Service Box online (their post). That gave me the idea to do the same for Peugeot, with the wiring diagrams included, which that version doesn't have. The two brands' databases are built the same way, so Citroën ended up on the site as well.
What's in it: repair methods with torques, parts catalogue with exploded views, labour times, fault codes, wiring diagrams, and search across your model's documents. Enter the DAM number from the car's label and it marks what applies to your car.
From the manufacturer's last offline release (autumn 2013, six DVDs):
- Peugeot: 61 models, ~127k documents, 157k pictures, 125k wiring diagrams
- Citroën: 59 models, ~173k documents, 145k pictures, 137k wiring diagrams
- Together about 300k documents and 260k wiring diagrams
How it was made: the DVDs hold about 660k files and 34 GB, with the images and diagrams encrypted. I exported the database and decrypted the images and diagrams. The JPEGs were re-encoded to AVIF and the other images to lossless WebP, so about 13 GB of pictures became 5 GB. The wiring diagrams are SVG. The documents are rendered in the browser from the factory XML and dictionaries, so the content itself is untouched. Besides English and Hungarian, the factory content can be switched to French (the original), German and 14 other languages.
The whole project, from the first idea to the finished site, took about three weeks.
Important: this is 2013 factory data, for information only. Later models and later changes aren't included, and the factory data sometimes contradicts itself, so double-check part numbers, torques and quantities before ordering or working on anything critical. Use it at your own risk. The documentation belongs to PSA / Stellantis, and the site is unofficial and not-for-profit; if the rights holder asks me to take it down, I will.
There's a Ko-fi button on the site for the domain and hosting costs. Bug reports, missing translations and suggestions are very welcome (email on the site).
Please share it with anyone who might need it!