Hi all!

A few weeks ago I ripped off all the window trim on my 1990 Volvo 240DL, prepped and painted the trim with SEM trim black, and even replaced the vinyl decals under the side windows with some new cut to spec ones I got off a guy on a Swedish Volvo forum. It looks great.

Anyway, in doing so I removed the trim around the rear quarter light windows.

They are affixed to the body of the car with these one time use push fasteners, or plastic rivets, if you will.

One straight up broke. The others are currently being held in place with toothpicks.

Where can I buy replacements?

What are these things called?

Thanks!

 

not sure what you mean by rear quarter light windows ? do you mean the fixed small windows on the back doors?

also, is this a sedan or wagon ?

 

In a sedan, the glass pieces in between the rear door Windows and the rear windshield. They are roughly triangular shaped.

 

the parts catalog shows that trim held in with pop rivets, volvo PN 966804, it says there's 6 total of these (but only shows where 2 on each side go?)

 

Aha, parts catalog -- I should get one of those! Yea that looks like the right thing.

The third one on each side goes on the exterior of the automobile, just above the far back corner of the trim.

(Assuming you count the other two being hidden inside the door jam for the rear doors.)

Thanks!

 

the parts catalog that covers these older cars is a CDROM set called "VADIS", which is an ancient piece of software, probably written in Visual Basic, that only seems to work on up to Windows XP. The newer catalogs the dealers are using now don't list much of the old stuff. the last version of VADIS is from 2005, and covers all cars from 240's up to whatever they made in 2005. I managed to find and download a bootleg of this, and it required some hackery to install, I run it on a Virtualbox hosted VM of Windows XP that has no network access (since XP is now a 'dead' operating system).