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How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by Cheng Chang on
Wednesday, 12 November 1997, at 9:31 p.m.
The driver side headlight lens was found broken a few days ago. It's a '94 854 base, non-turbo, with winter package. I got a replacement lens from my local dealer and tried to replace myself but I just found out that it was very hard to remove the facia underneath the headlight. When I bought the lens, I also checked the service guy and he told me that I should be able to lose the nut fixing the motor shaft of the headlight wiper from the back and remove the wiper from the front. However, I just couldn't locate the motor and ,of couse, the shaft.
Before I drive back to the dealer and spend $$$ on the labor, can anyone tell me how to remove the headlight wiper?
Thanks
Cheng
Re: How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by Tube on
Thursday, 13 November 1997, at 5:23 p.m.
Hej Cheng
Look at the front of the car where the broken headlight is.Where the shaft meets the wiper arm there is a small cover lift cover remove nut remove wiper arm,.
GL/T
Re: How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by Cheng Chang on
Friday, 14 November 1997, at 12:31 p.m.
Thanks a lot! I finally got the wiper out of the way, even I broke the plastic cover on the wiper, the weather was just too bad yesterday and the cover was hard like a piece of metal.
Unfortunally, I broke my windshield wiper this morning-:( I didn't notice that the one of the wipers was frozen to the windshield and I just needed to clean up the windshield. I just heard a clunk underneath the dashboard then only one wiper did the job. I believe I broke some mechnical parts between the two wipers so right now the borken wiper would just occationally swing up and refuse to swing down, the worst part is that the broken one is on the driver side.
Can someone tell me how to fix this or there is actually some protection mechnism to prevent the linkages from broken?
Thanks
Cheng
Re: How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by abe crombie on
Friday, 14 November 1997, at 5:25 p.m.
Turn you wipers off so that the linkage parks in the down position and then position the malfunctioning wiper to the rest position and tighten the nut holding the arm onto the shaft. This is a breakaway feature for just such an occasion as you experienced this A.M. It is cheaper to replace a wiper arm if this occurs repeatedly as opposed to replacing a motor or wiper transmission.
Re: How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by Paul Elliott on
Monday, 17 November 1997, at 3:12 p.m.
Do you recall, how much to replace the lens? Is it ever recommended to replace the whole lamp in such cases?
Re: How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by Cheng Chang on
Tuesday, 18 November 1997, at 4:34 p.m.
Paul:
I was lucky enough to locate a lens for my car from my local Volvo dealer, Borton Volvo. They located in south Minneapolis and their 1-800 # is 328-7114. The lens costed me $80 + tax. The whole assembly might cost you around $220. I was told that only certain years of 850 can have the lens changed without doing the whole thing, depending on who you talk to, parts or service. I think it's both 93 and early 94, even my car was built in June of 1994. I don't know if you can only change the lens on your car if it's later than '94, you might want to call them to find out. If you order through internet, you would get some discount, so don't forget to quote the internet price (you can quote internet prices on the phone). Their internet address is: parts@borton.com.
Since my lens was just cracking all the way across from top to bottom and I didn't see any moisture or damages on the reflector surface, I decided it was cheaper and might be easier to just replace the lens. If you really need to do this, drop me a line and I will tell you some tricks. It was not very easy to get the two bottom metal clips back on the lens. I wish I don't need to go through this again.
Good luck
Cheng
Re: How to replac a broken headlight lens on a 850?[ALL/1998] posted by Paul Elliott on
Wednesday, 19 November 1997, at 8:32 a.m.
Cheng, I ordered from Volvo service literature the service manual for lighting and instrumentation. Apparently around 94/95, they changed the headlights. Prior to that, they had used a sinble bulb arrangement. My car has a twin bulb setup, with separate lo beams and hi beams. According to the manual, the lenses on BOTH are still removable, by popping the 8 or so clips. But to do so, you've got to remove the entire lamp. Nevertheless, at least this book did not imply that the lense was NOT replaceable. In fact, quite the contrary....There might be other 850s which did not have replaceable lenses, but I could not find them in the literature. IPD in their copy for their plastic lens protectors, says that it can cost upward of $500 to deal with a broken lense. That certainly sounds like they're referring to the entire lamp, although , even for that, you list a price of half that, so, its still a mystery, I guess!
My lights seem hard to deal with...I replaced my stock 9005 and 9006 bulbs with higher wattage ones, and I found it not so trivial to refit them. In addition, in the process, the bottom of the reflector managed to accumulate a bit of dust or powder. Also, on one of the lo beam lamps, I now find that the wire which attaches to the reflector, will vibrate a little with the engine, producing a very faint 'shake' where the beam focuses on a close-up object. Considering the difficulties I seem to have with headlights, I dont think either of these things are serious enough to prompt me to start dismantling the lights in an effort to fix them. I'm pretty sure I'd wind up creating some kind of bigger problem!