Well, I have my 940T that my wife has now taken over, and I have become the proud owner of a 740T wagon. All is going well with the car - 165K, one owner, great shape, good price.

I would like to change out the radio - I think. I like the radio in our 940 w/ the pause feature, and it looks to fit the 740. Am I OK here?

On Ebay I saw some radios for sale for S70's and the like. Are there any other Volvo radios that might fit?

Thanks for any and all input.

Andrew in AL

I considered going the newer Volvo radio way in my 760Ti, but in the end I just could not be bothered, I bought the base model Kenwood CD Tuner which was on sale and now I can play CDs and gett a better radio reception than any factory radio would.

That's just me though.
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My 85 760Ti, and her name is Veronica...

In my '90 745t I removed the stock td-6141 radio and replaced it with a cr-814 from a 91-95 940t. Visually, the radios look similiar, but the cr-814 adds the abbility to control an alpine cd changer, and also has an internal amp that powers an additional pair of speakers (dash speakers on the 940, i believe).

All connections are the same between the radios. The only difference is that the cr-814 has 4 additional wires in the rectangular harness for the extra speakers, where the td-6141 just has blanks.

Watch out for different wiring (although there may be only LESS wiring, not that it is a different connector or anything).

The earlier radios and the later radios with blue display, look the same but are somewhat different. The design changed in 1991 to accomodate the extra speakers in the dashboard, where previously there weren't any. The whole wiring connector is different for the later models; or at least it is populated by more wires later on. And I think that there is a large change between wiring. At any rate, when I put one of those in a 940 one time (to experiment) it only worked on 2 speakers and that was it. It worked on 4 speakers in the 740 I took it out of (a 1990 model).

I think--and please understand that "think" means I don't warrant any advice I'm giving you--that the radios are interchangeable. The difference might (again; "might") be only that with one radio, there are less functional speaker outputs. The 940 had an optional 8-speaker system, while I think the most you could option in a 740 was 6 speakers. Most 700s between 1991 and 1992, came only with four speaker systems, and the green-faced radio (whatever model that is). Many 940s came with that one as well, leading me to believe that the wiring is interchangeable, but the speaker functionality might not be guaranteed across models. You could always experiment with it, though, since it IS a really easy swap to make.
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Chris Herbst, near Chicago.

I had a 90 744 (factory new) that was a LEMON, but that's another story that I replaced with a 91 744. The radio in the 90 was the same as the radio in a friends 91 944 while the factory had placed a cheaper unit in the 91 700 series.

Hope this helps.
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D.P. Mulvey in Central VA.