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DIDENPX,
For the exterior door window rubber "sweeper" seal, what are also called more commonly as "window scraper", R-sport International (http://www.r-sport.org/) offers these in neoprene (like scuba dive suit or it is another material) that is not rubber.
I guess you have an windshield already that accepts the Volvo OEM windshield trim for your 1977 242? Volvo no longer sells glass for the 240. If you need a replacement windshield, the aftermarket in the U.S. is (surprise!) all soft, thin, and crappy Chinese glass, and they come as kits. (Or how I miss the innovative glass optics of Northern Europe like you see in auto glass brands including SEKURIT (in your 1991 240), Trempex {in your 1973 164 if you ever had one}, Sunex brand {like possibly in your 1977 242} glass in our Volvos.) Dense, strong, thick, clear glass. The laminate layer between the glass layer is also thicker in these Europa brands.
These Chinese soft and crappy glass windshield kits come with a plastic frame around the glass and a synthetic rubber piece that merely presses into the plastic frame (requires an adhesive to retain it that does not come with these kits). The design is a very poor knock off of the flush mount trim design on the 240s 1991 ->. The design also complies with the auto glass industry use of that damned windshield urethane adhesive gasket for more modern makes and models, versus the butyl rubber bead or tape gasket used factory OEM on all 240. You can possibly remove the plastic frame from these Chinese glass windshields and use the Volvo windshield trim retaining clips for your 1977 model year trim.
If you have body work repair to the windshield pan and pinch weld, as I do on my 1992 240 GL successfully (so far) using the POR-15 process, well, removing a windshield secured by urethane gasket on top of such a windshield pan and pinch weld body work repair can destroy it. I myself installed a Pilkington brand windshield on this car using butyl rubber in 2008 or 2009. It appears all of the glass for your Volvo 240 comes from the same crappy Chinese factory with a different brand stamped on it.
Sorry, other than Tasca Volvo auto parts (their retail is 10% above their vendor cost), I have no other suggestion for the clips you need. The quality of aftermarket plastic or plastic & metal trim retaining clips is really poor.
Sorry to go on. Sorry for the embedded rant.
Hope that helps.
MacDuff.
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"I like uh fuzzy dice."
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