Best I've found is $325, takes a few days so they have to get it sent in. I guess these things are getting hard to find. Any ideas on a strategy? What about the 28-year-old trim?
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89 240 wagon, 94 940, 300K, 94 940, 141K

When I had windshield replacements on my 740s, I removed the wipers and cowl cover. Measure how high the center of the wipers are from the bottom of the windshield for when you reinstall them.

If the screen in the cowl cover is still held on by black gunk, or has fallen away, you might secure it with eight small zip ties spaced, four at the top and four at the bottom.

When the cowl cover is off, clean out any stuff below it.

On 740s, the cowl cover is removed by taking off about four small screws at the rubber seal at its bottom, I think that it hooks at the ends of the top of the cover.

I think that your car s the same or similar to my 740s.

My ‘88 had metal trim at the bottom of the cowl cover, my ‘90 had a black plastic strip - both came off the same.

Dear james_a_sousa,

Hope you're well. The factory-installed "black gunk", that secures(d) the cowl's screen can be replaced with butyl rubber, a very sticky and very durable adhesive.

Butyl rubber is used by automotive glass installers, to bed windshields. Because it remains flexible, it does not crack (fail) as a result of repeated extreme temperature variations, which cause a windshield to expand and contract.

On my 940, I removed the failed factory-installed "black gunk" from the spaces between the grille openings. This was not hard to do, as the stuff had dried-out.

I cleaned the metal using MEK. MEK (methyl ethyl ketone) is a very efficient solvent. It is a chemical cousin of acetone, but evaporates more slowly. MEK removes oil/grease and other surface contaminants. NOTE: MEK is very flammable. It is also carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic: wear gloves!!!!

I filled the spaces between every fourth grille opening with butyl rubber in round cross-section. I positioned the grill, and then pressed it into the butyl rubber. To ensure it stayed "put", I applied more butyl rubber atop the screen, pressing on it to make sure it bonded with that beneath. The screen is fully embedded in butyl rubber, which firmly adheres the screen to cowl.

I did this, because cowl removal - not especially hard - is time consuming. So, I wanted to do this job, such that it would not soon need to be repeated.

Years later, the screen remains where it should be.

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

Spook

Dear j.pelchat,

Hope you're well and stay so! The windshield is part number 9447824. Tasca Volvo offers this item at $233.72. I presume shipping is "extra". It might be worthwhile to ask about shipping from Providence, RI (Tasca's site) to Washington, D.C.

I'd prefer to have a Volvo brand item: a windshield is a mission-critical part.

As to installation, what matters most is removing all of the old adhesive, without scratching the surrounding metal. A small nick or scratch can be the start of rust-out. This happened to my 240 wagon, due to a windshield installer's careless (or incompetence).

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

Spook

I had to replace the windshield in the 92 945 a couple of years ago. Safelight Auto Glass in Manassas was able to get one without an excessive delay. However in changing it the wiper cable broke (from rust) and I just barely found a used wiper mechanism locally so watch out for that.

Brian Mee

92 945T
91 240