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After months of searching for a cherry '93 240, I changed courses and am now the proud new owner of a 1997 850 base model in navy blue with tan seats! 122K and bought it from the original owner. No leaks, great brakes, frosty A/C and really nice shifting auto tranny. Exterior is an 7-8 and interior - well, does anyone have any spare tan seat bottoms?
Two questions - did Volvo offer fog/driving lights as an option on this model? If so, were they the small round ones? There is an lower grill opening that looks like it was made for a rectangular light with one rounded side, and it seems like I have seen them somewhere. If one installs the round lights (which I have seen on ebay and other places), is there a special grill/surround insert for them?
Secondly, since the seat bottoms are shot, I would like to install seat heaters before I recover them. IPD has the replacement heaters, but where would one find the wiring harness and other assembly? Has anyone ever attempted this?
Thanks in advance for your replies. Nice to finally be a Volvo owner again after nine years (we sold my '88 240 in '00 and my wife's '91 740 in '02 - big mistakes!)
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I have a '96 855R with fog lights.
For what they are worth, you might as well use any small white light.
All they illuminate is a few feet down the side of the road.
If you really want lights for fog, a nice set mounted on front of the grille would be a better bet.
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'96 855R,'64 PV544 driver, '67 P1800 basket case, '95 855, '95 854, the first three are mine, heh, heh, 485,000 miles put on 9 bricks
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Went to the dealer today to get touch up paint. The car is Nautic Blue and the seats are beige. One of the techs who helped me said there is a small grill piece for the fogs but he was talking about the rectangular ones. I found those in a kit with all wires and lights on the net for $362.00 - no thanks. Is there a grill piece for the round ones, or did they come in a separate front spoiler?
Yes, planning on hitting three good salvage yards tomorrow in Manchester, TN, on my way back to Nashville from Sewanee. Good info on the whole seat deal and what to pull - thanks!
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The 850/70 car interiors came in 3 colors, gray, biege(light), and tan, with tan being the rarest. The bottom covers are interchangeable from side to side, the seat back covers are not.
If you want to install heated seats, and you need the wiring and switches, find a junk yard/pick&pull. The switches are 850 specific, the seats can come from 850, S70, and V70 up to 2000. Get not just the seats, but the wiring also that goes under the carpet to the dash. Putting in a power seat is not difficult.
I have not had a good experiance with Volvo fog lights, they look nice but shine very little down the road. Also, they only work with the headlights switched on, not in DRL mode. There is a different small grill with an opening for the fog light, fairly cheap at the dealer even. The fog lights are not cheap and hard to find. For TN foggy nights, I would look for E-code headlight glass which has a flat cutoff and reflects less glare.
Klaus
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Question: if I located seats from a V70 and wanted to replace my 850 seats with them, would I also need to get the wiring, or will the current wiring in my 850 work with the V70 wiring fixtures?
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Through 2000 should be the same, 2001+ are a little different.
The 1998+ have gray plastic instead of black for the seat switches.
Klaus
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Did you do your Random Act of Kindness today?
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Pull it from the junkyard. If you grab the seat as a whole you can get cushion, power seat, memory function, and seat warmer as one. You'll have to grab the switch from the center console. It appears, in my GLT, that all the wiring is present for the heated seats, but I'm not sure on the base. You might get lucky and find some seats with pretty good leather on them...
I've seen the fog lights on 850s, but not on mine. Since I just run my headlights all the time, I never looked into fog lights.
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If you're not driving it "like its stolen," are you really driving?
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