so our old 240 (1987, a bajillion miles, original owners), my daughter wants it back... its got water leaks around the windshield, it appears the glue-seal has failed, so we're probably going to have to put a new windscreen on it. last time we did this, probably 20 years ago, we used a real Volvo windshield. are those even still available, or are we pretty much stuck with generic thin crappy american/chinese glass ?

 

I doubt even Volvo dealers ever had OEM glass. For years most makes use generic brands and sub windshields out to the auto glass companies. I believe Volvo used Pilkington, St. Gobain, etc. even if it said "Volvo" on the glass... These days I get windshields for $125 installed, those are certainly Chinese but you can't beat the price.

 

I had a couple gaps in the seal on my windshield, just filled it up with silicone. Not a perfect solution, but it works.

 

I pulled the trim strip off, the windshield sealant has massive cracks and shrinkage all the way around. was rinsing off the car, and could see a rivlet of water running down the inside of the windshield.

its going into the autoglass place for an aftermarket 91-93 style windshield with the integral trim on wednesday, found a window guy who says he's done lots of older volvos, used to do them for the local dealer before they went out of business, and knows exactly how to seal them right.

then the car just needs front brakes, and lower control arm bushings to be road worthy again.

and new tires.

sigh.

 

Here's how I dealt with those leaks over a long time....

<a href=http://cleanflametrap.com/windshield.html><img src=http://cleanflametrap.com/windshield/ws6919.jpg target="_blank"></a> (click on the image for full view)

 

glass guy just called us, we went down there to look... we had nowhere NEAR that amount of rust, but he's going to wire brush off whats loose and flakey, apply some rust reducer overnight, then clean that off and neutralize it, then do his normal primer+windshield, and we should be good to go.

 

the window guy shot this cell vid showing the mating surface after he brushed it but before he put the rust reducer on it... this car should be good to go for another decade now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OZ-...ature=youtu.be

 

Hey Pierce, nice to see you back here, too bad it's for problems. But good to hear you're getting em fixed. Hope the Toyota's running well.

 

the Tacoma is an appliance, you turn it on and it runs. absolutely no drama or soul.

but its hauled our new Casita camper a few 1000 miles already.

 

If drama equals soul....then Volvos definitely have soul!


By the way, I'm thinking about getting some green books for my '93 940 wagon, where did you get yours?

 

AFAIK, Volvo stopped selling the greenbooks something like 10 years ago. I have a couple DVDROMs, one for 240, one for 940/960, that you can buy from the Volvo Owners Club, they have scans of a lot (but not all) greenbooks over the duration of time each model family was made.

these DVD's are very copyprotected. I run them in a Windows XP VM under VirtualBox on my windows 10 PC.

 

The "drama" is created by the owner! I have 6 red blocks right now, and I've had a couple of hundred pass through my hands with very little if any drama!

 

the outside window sill rubber blades are totally cracked and crumbling on this 240, parts counter tells me they are unobtanium?

 

ok, I just found Dave Barton's replacements, yay. ordered.

 

Wish that had worked for me on my 89 Volvo 240 Sedan! I tried absolutely every conceivable method and products in the market - but with no success. I dug out most of the existing sealant as well as the 20+ green and black retainer clips. After thoroughly cleaning the gap with acetone and compressed air, I applied a product called "Seal All," that came highly recommended by several forums and others, into the gap making certain there were no bubbles that would weaken the seal. Unfortunately, my efforts failed and it still leaked, but not as much as before.I finally gave up and had a windshield service replace the windshield. During the replacement process it was noted that the previous owner had it replaced with the wrong WS, and that some braze welding was performed on the upper passenger corner to fill in corrosion holes. The weld bead was not ground down level to original, thereby causing a gap as well as a stress point! The new windshield was nicely installed on a thin bed of mastic and sealed properly. Unfortunately, I had purchase a new set of clips, but the installer advised that they would only cause problems with any sealing job! The clips serve to securely snap on and hold the chrome metal trim, which I decided not to reuse. Elected to install a new black nitrile outer trim instead that looked better as well.Take my advice, unless you are trying to make your car "original" , save yourself all this aggravation, money and time and just go with a replacement that makes sense, and will be far more effective. Note: I also had to replace the ww pump shaft sealing grommet which was a terrible task - never was able to get it fully seated properly all the way around it so used silicone to finish it up. Bottom line - The car no longer leakes in the front anywhere! Phew...