Hello,

today i removed the seats to clean the car, and founf out the foam on the bottom had dried out, craked and is now not supporting my weight and is just falling apart. My question is, which cars share the same seats so ican go to the junkyard and get a repalcement seat i have an 1981 240, maybe a newer volvo can give me a better seat. or just a 240 seat will fit?

thanks,

chargerucd

http://radmannen.stavanger.kommune.no/ebrox/volvoweb/myvolvo240.htm

Take a look at that Websight. Left side, Click on Seat Rebuild.

AFter you get the lower seat appart, you can 'sew' in Clothes hangers to add strength to the Grid.

Do you (my some small chance) live on Long Island? I have two Grids in my basement from my rebuild.
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'75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwr and two motorcycles: it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me

I and just about anybody with a volvo that has reached puberty has had a similar problem. for what it's worth, (and for me it was free!) I relied on an extremely easy fix. in order to avoid beating myself up with those springs (they tend to have pretty sharp points on the ends), rather than replace the grid, I just ripped it out.
and in it's place i used a nylon tie down strap. i suppose a ratcheting one would work, but I used one with the friction clamp.
all i had to do was get the seat completely out, and flip it over.
on each side of the underside of the seat there are either 4 or 5 springs attached to the frame, the other side of the spring is a loop to hold on to the (currently rotten) seat grid.
thread the nylon strap through the accessible loops of the springs, much like you would run a shoe lace through each eyelet, eventually the end meet up, and you can pull it taught to lock it. I also stuck a piece of fairly substantial foam rubber between the seat foam and the strap, but in hindsight, the carpet piece described earlier would have been better.
anyway, i had the stuff lying around, i took all of 5 minutes once i had the seat out. and really stiffens up the seat nicely.

Do a search on the archives for front seat rebuilding. There's a lot a good information there.

All the 240 seats will fit regardless of year. I believe the seat back changed slightly (a little taller, headrest wider) somewhere around 86-88. My opinion is they are not as durable as the older seats. But in the junkyard, you'll find all conditions, depending on mileage (driver's seat) climate, care and use. A passenger seat is likely to be the best junkyard pick, but you'll have to take it apart and reverse the hardware for the recliner and lumbar adjustment if you want it right. Or just take the foam, buy a new style grid and beef it up with a square foot of carpet.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore