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WHOA!! -- not so fast and easy. I did this just a few months ago. I'd purchased an '89 245 that had been run into at an intersection. The Volvo managed to stop just short of avoiding a van blowing a traffic light. The right front fender was folded over at the very tip, the bumper and hood bent and pushed to the left side of the car, the lights and grille smashed. I'd saved the bumper, hood and radiator support with the 4 rectangular headlights from a scrapped '82 240. These were the parts I had, so that's what I used to fix the '89. The panel that the headlight bracket bolts to is set at a different depth and is a different shape, with none of the needed fixed nuts built in. I removed the screws that hold the top panel (horizontal) to the vertical panel and drilled out the spot welds that hold the vertical panel to the lower radiator support/valance. Then installed the early vertical panels into the later car. The hood of the earlier car fits--the latch part lines up--but the hood is longer in front (the early grille will fix that)--and at the rear it sits lower than the cowl (a panel changed when they changed the headlights) where the early car has a central intake vent--the later one right and left vents. In my case I needed to use the early bumper--this has left a gap between the parking lamps and the bumper. Don't forget you'll have some wire splicing to do as well. Better get a good early start on this project. -- Dave
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