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Hello! I now have installed the motors of the elecric windows and i need a electric scheme to install the wires and switches.........I have an 1975 Volvo 245 DL....the system is the older one where the switces are in the centre console.








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I am waiting for the old system schemes :D Have you forgotten me :D








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I just realized that Bob gave you a very complete description and you were able to create your own schematic. But it was fun drawing the diagram. Now I should go work on my own car.
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'80 DL 2 door, '89 DL Wagon








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I am so happy to have here so helful Volvofriends :).....have a happy Christmas night and a Happy New year to you.............
Volvo for life.......il will keep thaty scheme :)








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Now 1 of the electric windows is working :) Tomorrow i´´ll install the other one. :)








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Markku,
I have copied the 2 door and 4 door wiring diagrams for a '79 240, USA model. The switches show four connections which should be correct for the equipment you describe.
Check your e-mail. Jpeg's are attached.
Will you still have the option to use the temporary hand crank if one of the motors fail? I saw an '81 242 a few months ago with that feature and it seemed like a good idea. I wish my '89 wagon had it.
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'80 DL 2 door, '89 DL Wagon








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Hi,
Your car looks very nice, keep up the good work! As for the diagram, I can only direct you to the newer ones unfortunately. With luck, only the switch positions are different from yours.

Two-door:
http://81.8.214.190/_pub/elhissar/elhiss2dr_1.jpg
http://81.8.214.190/_pub/elhissar/elhiss2dr_2.jpg

Four-door:
http://81.8.214.190/_pub/elhissar/el2.jpg
http://81.8.214.190/_pub/elhissar/el3.jpg

(BTW, I haven't seen Andruus Verpalu or Jak Mae so far this season. They haven't retired, have they? Kristina Smigun is doing great though, as expected!)

Erling, Norway.
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My 240 Page








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Thank you Erling it think with these schemes i will manage but if anyone has a opportunity to show me the older system ones then it will be easyer :D
to Erling:
Kristina Smigun is doing well and Andrus Veerpalu is OK but Jaak Mae isnt having his best times....Maybe in Torino things change :)
Volvo for life!

EdM. AND B.C. READ ALL MY MESSAGES AND YOU´LL FIND THE ANSWERS FOR YOURE QUIESTIONS AND MAYBE YOU´LL HAVE THE SCHEMES OF THE OLDER SYSTEM.








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Did you do all 4 doors or just the fronts? If all 4, where didyou mount the switches for the rear doors?

My 1977-78 Wiring Diagram Service Manual shows the switches to be the four-pin type. The 5-pin type show in my 1984 240 Wiring Diagram Service Manual, so they changed between those two years.

Did you get the system out of a donor car? what year was it?

The other difference seems to be that with the 5-pin system the driver's door has five switches - all 4 windows and one to cut off power to the rear windows.

Did you get the relay? Needs to be a 4-prong "cube" type.

Let us know if you have the 4-pin or 5-pin.

Good Luck,

Bob

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:)Now for the beginning i live in Estonia(if someone knows this little country) and the electric switches and motors and relays are from Australia....a friend sent me them....they are taken from a Volvo 244 1979...
And i have only the front electric windows!!!!!!!!!!!!
But if i´´ll gety the rear ones then i have special switches holes in the middle console in the rear wheres the handbrake.
I have only got one relay...there has to be two of them, hasnt it....
BUT THE RELAY HAS GOT 5 PINS...and from the realy are also coming out 5 wires...2red ones are coming out wrom the same hole.
I so hope you can help me....technically the elecrtic window works :)



Volvo 245 DL 1975
http://www.carrating.org/car.php?4721








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Hello Estonia -

Aside: When I was very young and the nations of the world changed very seldom, my father taught us kids about the countries in regions. I remember the countries in Scandanavia as Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Also I remember the countries named the Baltics: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. It is a grand thing that we can converse! Especially about Volvos.

I have reviewed the schematics I have for both the 1978-79 240s and the 1987-88 240s.

The newer one uses the 5-pin switches because of the master panel in the driver's door handle. Five switches there so the driver can control all four windows and also cut power to the rear windows so the kiddos can't play with'em.

The earlier system, switches in the control panel and the E-brake console, used the 4-pin switches. That system was also a lot simpler.

Relays needed: In both old and new systems there is only one. Its sole
purpose is to deny power to the windows if the key is not available. Most (but not all) of the cube-shaped relays have numbered terminals that are the same for all such relays. The coil is between terminals #85 and #86. Terminal #30 goes to the armature (moves when coil is energized).

If the coil is NOT energized, AND the relay has 5 prongs, terminal #30 is connected to terminal #87a. This is not needed for power windows so the that relay usually relay has only 4 prongs.

If the coil IS energized, terminal #30 is connected to Terminal #87.

Relay connections are Terminal #86 to any fuse "hot" when the key is in Position II, it is blue-yellow in my book.

Terminal #85, black, is connected to a ground.

Terminal #30, brown, is connected to Fuse #10 in the 1979 book, to #12 in the 1988 book.

Terminal #87, 2 reds, is to the switches, to a pin that might be marked +.

On the switches, same side as the + pin is a - (minus) pin. It gets a black wire to a ground.

On the switches, opposite side from the + and (-) pins are pins marked #1 and #2. Wires are different left door to right.

Left side. Red from motor goes to a connector and comes out blue, to pin #2
Black from the motor goes to a connector, comes out gray, goes to pin #1.

Right side. Red from motor goes to a connector, comes out green, to pin #1.
Black from motor goes to connector, comes out white, to pin #2.

The connectors are so that the wires can be unhooked to remove the door.

I hope this info will get you started on your project. I have found that having power windows is very helpful. Here in the southern city of Houston (cold wave = 38F, summer = 90F) air conditioning is a must. When it is broken, being able to roll down both passenger side windows 4 to 6 centimeters sets up a whirling breeze inside, cools well unless the humidity is high.

Good luck,

Bob

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Thank you Bob :) Its nice to hear that people remember that beatiful little country where i life :) Estonia of course :D
But i have read youre notes and i have put a scheme togehter and things are quite good at the moment...maybe before christmas i´´ll get my el windows to my old brick :D
Merry Christmas..........
Volvo for life!
A BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME :)








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Funny, I was just about to whip up a diagram of that. Tell me first, though: do your switches have four pins or five? I'm under the perhaps mistaken understanding that the older ones have four, but mine have five, so my diagram will, too.

What I want to do, if possible, is set it up with one joystick and a three position switch to toggle between the mirrors. My first step, though, will be to transcribe the stock wiring diagram.

-EdM.
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'90 240DL Wagon 'Lola' -- '72 1800ES 'Galadriel'








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