I have been trying to fix the brake light on the driver side of my 1990 244. I suppose, but I am not certain that the black wires are for the back up white lights, the green and blue are for either left or right blinkers, the yellow ones are for the Brake-stop lights the white ones for the bright red fog lights and the red for the regular tail lights+side markers.

I am used to station-wagon lights clusters which are not cursed with flimsy prone-to corrosion printed circuits. On my sedan the more corroded area is at the lower and outer corner of the clusters. I am planning to by-pass the more problematic sections of the printed circuit with wires with alligator clip or by soldering wires on to the terminals on the bulb holders, until I can get my hands on the printed circuits after the holidays


Any tips or recommendations.

How did you make out?? If you are still looking for info, I have a WORD document that might help. E-mail me you e-mail address and I will send it off.

Click on the Envelope next to my name
--
'75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me

Thanks for the offer. You could Email me at Bodil@sympatico.ca. I have not worked on the car since I got the different replies. Christmas day was nice and sunny but today there has been a snowstorm and the car is outside in the street. I had not realised that the brown wire was a tail light wire. I am considering transferring the brake lights to the fog light position.

I can use my station-wagon until the sedan light problem get sorted out.I will call the volvo dealer tomorrow to see how much the tail lights printed circuits cost.

You'd better be sitting when he tells you the price.

Have you done a SEARCH on Tail lights on this site? There are many remedies people have done to get their circuit boards to work.

The INFO was sent to that e-mail address.

good luck
--
'75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwrd, two motorcycles, '85 Pickup: The '89 Volvo is the newest vehicle I own. it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me

The printed circuit is fourty dollars and the whole cluster over $200. So far with alligor-clipped jumper wires I have restaured all lights except that I am using the foglight section as the brake lights. I am tempted to solder everything in plsce and cover the alligator clip terminals with liquid wire insulator. I will search the scrapyards once the temperature gets warmer

Sounds good.

I soldered hard wires to all bulb holders on the right side of our sedan - the circuit board was damaged and the plastic frame was heat-warped also. I figured that hard wiring was the best way to go. I'm glad I did it.

I found soldering to the bulb holder contacts difficult. I wasn't able to drill the stock, and some connections needed resoldering due to bad contact. I suspect the tabs are stainless. Someone suggested they may be nickel plated.

So if soldering hard wiring, wrap your wires well, and be patient.
--
Sven: '89 245 NA, 951 ECU, open-front airbox, E-fan, 205/65-15's, IPD sways, E-Codes, amber front corner reflectors, quad horns. Wifemobile '89 245 NA stock. 90 244 NA spare, runs.

I'm sorry that this is from the "green book" (Volvo's shop manual) for a '93, rather than your '90, but I doubt it's very different:

Turn Signals (pg 54-55):
Left, blue-green
Right, blue

Fog Lights (pg 50-51):
Left, violet
no right fog light

Backup Lights (pg 36-37):
Both sides, red-black

Brake Lights (pg 28-33):
Left, yellow-green
Right, yellow

Taillights (pg 26-27):
Left, Red
Right, Brown-white

Hope this helped.

Below is according to the diagrams in the Haynes book.

Left brake light: yellow + green
Right brake light: yellow
Center brake light: blue + black
Left rear turn sig: blue + green
Right rear turn sig: blue
Left tail light: red
Right tail light: brown
Lic. plate lights: white

Sorry, it doesn't tell me the fog lights color.

Fog lights as well as backup lights are each fed by a single wire going to the left lamp cluster. The contact on the connector meets a double-wide copper patch on the circuit board. A neighboring contact picks up the voltage from that double-wide contact patch and feeds it back into the nylon connector, into an appropriate wire going across to the other side.

So, for fogs as well as backups, pulling the left side connector disables the backups and fogs for both sides.

--
Sven: '89 245 NA, 951 ECU, open-front airbox, E-fan, 205/65-15's, IPD sways, E-Codes, amber front corner reflectors, quad horns. Wifemobile '89 245 NA stock. 90 244 NA spare, runs.