Posting on behalf of a good friend who hit a deer a year or so ago. Very minor damage surprisingly, just the frame and signal lamp were smashed up but electrically everything is still working. Hoping to snag these at Pick-N-Pull next time I venture out there. I found several perfectly intact the last time I went, but couldn't figure out how to remove them and gave up. If I remember correctly, she has a 1987 or '88 740 GLE.

 

Unclip the grill, undo the corner light, and go from there--bolts will be visible. The bottom fixture is attached under the bucket and it has to be unscrewed too if memory serves me--it's been awhile since I did these...

 

I've only done the one piece plastic kind, and those are on a plastic plate that's bolted to the panel behind them via 3-4 nuts from the back side. trying to seperate the headlight bucket itself from the plastic adjuster plate while its still in the car almost always breaks the little ball joints. its been a little while, but I'm remembering the headlight and turn signal coming off as a single assembly, then you detach the turnsignal part.

but the 4-square could be completely different, hard to say.

 

Ah...trickier than the old Mercedes cars I work on, but sounds like it should be easy enough next time I find one at the wrecking yard. How is part compatibility between Volvo 700 series...do the year and model have to be pretty close or are they all the same?

 

Any 740 with 4 lights will do, as well as all 760's up to '87... If it 's got those four sealed beams, you are good--they all the same.

 

personally, if I had a 740 with the 4-squares, and one side of the lights was bashed, I'd be looking for a set of early-style euro E-Code lights, probably via a european connection >

 

We think alike! I bought a Mercedes 190D a year ago that had a smashed headlight and the very first thing I did was order a Euro set, been wondering if there was a more attractive Euro version for her Volvo. What do they look like, other than probably waaaay nicer?

 

I believe this is the early 740/760 euro light configuration...

 

Those are nice, although I imagined they would have the same number of lamps...kinda like this:

 

that looks like the late760, 960, and some 940 US version. (although the ecodes of that generation were similar). I don't think those will fit on the early style 740. I've been told its hard to change my late 740 single rectangle to those, that I'd need new trim pieces, new grill, new side lights, and the hood wouldn't quite line up right. on the US version at least, those fog lamps are plastic and very prone to turning hazy yellow. the main lamp was both high and low beam, the inside light is purely an ineffective fog lamp..

 

Those ecodes for the 740's up to '89 are pricey, like $300 and up....
The Fog Light version (four lights) won't fit a pre '89 740 and they are a major pain to adapt to later '90 and up 7/900. I like that loook, and they are glass except for the fogs but you gotta get them as they come, (Package III) or will need to change practically the whole front end.

 

My solution: https://volvoforums.com/forum/volvo-...9-740-a-70454/

 

That looks so fracking sick! If this was my car, I would be tempted to comission you for a set. Very nice.