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Missing 0's above air vent wheels 850

I recently took apart the dash to change bulbs in the instrument cluster. I mistakenly took out the screws that hold the air supply tubes to the front plate (that you don't remove for this, per Bay 13) on either side of the cluster. without the screws in place, the black plastic front of the dash flexed quite a bit when I removed the cluster. After I reassembled it, I found that the white 0's above the near right and top left vent control wheels are gone; it turns out that these are press-in parts, and the only way to get new ones from the dealer is to buy the entire front plate. I took it apart again to try to find the little buggers, but no luck; I'm not going to dissassemble the entire dash just for those two little parts.

Has this happened to anyone else, and did you find a reasonable solution? I don't like having those empty holes because they remind me of a dumb mistake.
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1995 850 T Wagon X 2








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    Missing 0's above air vent wheels 850

    Hehehehe, I have a missing one as well, but bought it that way. Wreckers wouldn't seperate the little "o"'s either.

    Sorry, no suggestions, unless you're sitting in another volvo. . . . someone you really don't like. . . . . . , and then they leave you alone in there for a few minutes :p

    I thought of just using white out on a bit of black plastic and glueing it in, but then it has potential to look average unless you spend quite a bit of time on something like this. Not sure how you like such fiddly things.
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    245GL 370,000km, 850R 5spd wagon :) 180,000km







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