Brickboard Members,

I am replacing the foam and grid on my drivers seat and I have a few questions:

-First, I am missing one of the anchors to which the seat springs mount. The anchors are small little pieces of steel in a sort of "T" shape with the hole in the bottom of the "T" for the spring. I'm not sure these exist in all model years - I don't think my 1988 has them. But this one does.

Does anyone know of a source for these anchors?

-second, I bought a bum warmer from Swedish Car Parts:

https://www.swedishcarparts.com/parts/1640-volvo-seat-heater-replacement-pad-he240740

Has anyone installed one of these? It looks to be larger than the size of the seat. Am I supposed to cut it off and only use part of it?

-third, the old seat cushion has a piece of fabric between the foam and the cover - thin, white, poly of some sort. Any recommendation for what to use here?

-finally (and this is more curiosity than anything), my old seat cushion has a distinctive round hole in the rear of the foam. I thought this was a defect, but it appears to be original and is in the passenger seat as well. What is this?

Thanks all,

Michael

Last: The round hole is for the seat warmer wire. The temperature control is stuck through there if there were seat heaters installed.

Third: That cover is to isolate the foam from the seat skin. It keeps the foam from shredding. Any slippery cloth would work, but it needs to be glued to the foam.

Second: The instructions say cut to fit. If it is wide enough to reach the side bolsters, leave it. Starting in 1998, the seat heaters included the bolsters and made a great improvement over the earlier models.

First: Can you make your own?
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Keeping it running is better than buying new

Thanks for the response. I did end up spending some time in the basement fabricating one of those "T" anchors.

I also discovered something else. My seat grid is different from other 240s. It's about an inch narrower than the seat grid on my 1988 240. This must be because the springs mount to these anchors rather than the seat frame. The anchors do have the springs further away from the frame than if they were attached directly.

This means that I am going to have to re-use the old seat grid, rather than the replacement I purchased.

Has anyone else run into this issue? Does someone out there make the "narrow" seat grid for the late-model 240s? IDP only seems to sell one version.

Michael