Illuminated hazard lights switch - can it be done?

[Stephen Edwin]

Can a hazard light switch be fitted to the 240, later dashboard, illuminated when the lights are on? Like the illuminated electric window switches.

Maybe from a non-240 Volvo, or maybe a proprietory switch or from another car make?

Are hazard lights switches standard electrically or are they specific to the make and model of car?

Any advice please.

[Clifford Pope]

Do you mean faintly illuminated all the time, so that you can find the switch, and then flashing brightly when you turn them on?
I'd think you'd need an extra permanently live feed for that, plus a second very dim bulb.

[Stephen Edwin]

Yes. To help find the switch.

I'm re arranging the switches so that I can find them easily anyway. But the illumination of the hazard switch seems worth a little thiinking about while I'm doing it. Most newer cars have that and it is one good idea of newer cars I think. It's not something I'd put a lot of effort in to though.

[940Graeme]

My 1989 240 GLT has a little "downlighter" over the hazard switch so that it is illuminated at night.

Check that there isn't a hole already above the switch and it is just that the bulb hasn't gone?

Sure all later models had this feature.

Good luck,

[Angie]

I thought there should be illumination for the switches as well as to the heater controls and discovered that all the bulbs had failed. There are lights which shine through slots in the panel above the switches, as well as the ones lower down for the heater. I had some fun replacing the bulbs but if I can do it I'm sure you can! My switches, for rear window heater, fog lights and hazard lights, are all grouped to the right of the panel so easy to locate in the dark anyway as long as I remember which order they're in!

[Stephen Edwin]

Originally Posted by Angie

I thought there should be illumination for the switches as well as to the heater controls and discovered that all the bulbs had failed. There are lights which shine through slots in the panel above the switches, as well as the ones lower down for the heater. I had some fun replacing the bulbs but if I can do it I'm sure you can! My switches, for rear window heater, fog lights and hazard lights, are all grouped to the right of the panel so easy to locate in the dark anyway as long as I remember which order they're in!

Nice layout you have there. And that outside temp gauge looks neat. Perhaps I should be good and maybe Santa will find one and give it to me!

I must get those bulbs sorted, yes. I am about to re group my switches. Lose the seatbelt warning light. Sunroof, rear screen heater and driver's mirror heater to the right - hazard lights just left of centre, I reckon I can remember that layout.

I must fix the heated mirror. And I wonder if the combined switch for both the heated rear screen and driver's mirror from a 740 would fit and work on the 240 ...

The towing indicators warning light is already removed. It was not connected to anything. There's a buzzer which is annoyign but I've only ever towed about 4 miles with this car. Oh, I'll have to tow the 4 miles back some time before Christmas Day.

[Angie]

Suunroof? Heated mirrors?? Really, that's just showing off!

I do wonder though, to be serious, would it be possible to put heated mirrors on a Torslanda? I don't particularly want to alter the car too much by putting electrically adjustable ones on but I've often thought that having them heated could be a real improvement.

The ambient temperature gauge is surprisingly reassuring even in our mild winters. In fact even more so in a way because we tend not to expect icy roads much in this part of the country so I've often been surprised to notice the red warning light showing, and driven accordingly. They do appear sometimes on Ebay, though I bought mine from someone here, I seem to remember. I also have a digital one, which is correct for the year but doesn't look in character so decided to keep the analogue one on for now.

I've kept the towing light even though I've never done any towing, it's there and I might one day pluck up courage to tow the dinghy trailer. We bought a caravan a few years ago but didn't use it, then had to sell it when we moved house as there's nowhere here to keep it.

[Stephen Edwin]

I guess your best hope of economically fitting a heated driver door mirror would be by plunder. When is the next shipwreck planned? Get everything needed from a 740. But I think there might be quite a bit of work involved.

That ambient temperature gauge increasingly sounds interesting. And yes, analogue must surely be more appropriate visually on a 240 rather than digital.

[Stephen Edwin]

I'm just remembering the almost primary coloured panel switches on earlier 240s with very plain white painted markings. In case I find one, do they fit the later 240s?

The later switches are sort of "executive style" ...