Well that's good to know. I do like the looks of the fogs next to the smaller headlights so I'll probably do the complete conversion, depending on what car I buy. Thanks

 

I didn't have my camera phone with me, but I might take pics for ya next time.

Neither the lower pins fit into the holes, or the upper tabs. You could probably clearance the non fog brackets to accept the uppers and lowers. I personally didn't like the gap on each side and found it unacceptable, but others may find it acceptable.

Honestly, get some fog ecodes on there with US spec fog grille. If have contact info for a guy in europe that can get you used ones if you need them. Get ready to spend about $300.

Echodes:

 

Those look nice but $300 bucks for headlights is a bit much. Ouch! But thanks.

 

sounds like you don't even own a Volvo yet. in the market....?

Yeah, if you buy some dumpy paint-faded 940, it's not worth putting $300 of glass up front, but when I was making 10k/mo it was. Dont even bother with the cheap aftermarket euro headlight stuff. Total garbage.

 

about the only aftermarket headlights I've found that are worth a damn are the Depo lights. they are very close to the originals, pretty much drop in installation, and significantly cheaper. I've used them on a 2004 Toyota Camry, a 1993 Mercedes 300CE, a 1992 Volvo 740, and a 1987 Volvo 240. no complaints.

 

Actually I'm getting back into Volvos. I've owned 4 of them in late 70's and early 80's. Feeling nostalgic and have been looking for the last rwd made. I've checked out a lot of good and crappy 940's over the last 6 months and was willing to fly a few miles to pick up a good one. Ironically I just found a 93 Gold Turbo locally that has 180,000 miles and looks to be in pretty good shape, including fogs and egg crate. Motor is nice and quiet, no slap, and the paint and body look pretty decent except for 2 small, shallow dents on front edge of hood. It also has the usual...driver's seat leather is shreds, sunroof doesn't work and ac doesn't work. He's asking $1900 which I won't pay but if I can get him down to 1500 or less I think I'll take it. Good deal?

 

find a passenger seat in the same color leather at a junkyard, and swap the cushions, they are interchangable, you just need to cut and hem a hole for the lumbar ****.

 

Actually this is somewhat of a good thing because I wanted to switch to cloth, slide around too much on leather. One thing I don't know is whether a cloth seat(which seem to come only on non-turbos) can be found with power and heat?

 

Oh I think I misread your post. If I do switch only the cushions, then all the power and heat options should be intact. Right?

 

I do have another question about this car and what I'd possibly need to get the A/C going again. What tends to fail? And I'm sure new parts would cost more than I want to invest but what would be a rough, ballpark figure for used, wrecking yard parts?

 

the power would stay intact, but the heater element is inside the cushions.

plan B), there's a bunch of online places that make custom cut seat covers to fit a huge range of cars. if you install these carefully, using 'hog rings' around the bottom of the seat to secure them, they are nearly as good as new seats. go for the 'full custom' option at these sites, I'd suggest the velour style fabrics, they are pretty close to the factory cloth seats.

Custom Fit Seat Covers
Vel Quilt Seat Covers | Seat Covers Unlimited

etc etc.

 

re: AC...

most typically, the system developed leaks. IF the compressor hasn't been run too much without freon, then it might even still work. at a minimum you'll need to replace all the o-ring seals in the system, get a new (NOT used) receiver/dryer, pump down a hard vacuum, do a leak test, and load it with new freon, and you should be good to go.

if the compressor has gone south, you'll need a new (used?) compressor, then the rest of the above.

worse case, the evaporator, which is buried deep in the dashboard, has failed and is leaking. replacing that is a **** of an ugly job, the whole dash has come out, many hours of tinkering. 740/940's have better AC systems than 240's.

 

Thanks I appreciate all the info.

 

evaporator:

 

Ha! You sure that didn't come from the Space Shuttle?

 

u can find cloth with heat and power seats on turbos and n/a cars. Later turbos often were pretty stripped. Bought one today: hubcaps, no roof, cloth, manual seats, '94 945, will be for sale soon...

re a/c, compressors fail, but can be had for cheap rebuilt $100-200,

 

that thing in the picture is the 940 air box under the dash. on the right is the fan, and the air intake above it, that sucks in from either hte cabin (recircuiate mode) or fresh air from the cowl vents (normal). the silver finny thing in the middle is the AC evaporator, thats what makes the air cold. on the left is the air distribution box, which also has the heater core in it, and various vacuum activated control flaps to send air to the defroster, dash vents, and floor heating vents.

 

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the silver thing near the center console in THAT picture is the heater core.

 

Good to know, that means I have a lot more choices.

 

It definitely looks complicated under the dash but I guess all cars are like that. The only thing I'm a little concerned about is replacing a heater core which seems to be a regular, expected failure on these cars. But I did read the diy info on that and it doesn't seem too complicated, just time consuming.