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Jul 8th, 2020, 09:49 | #11 |
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The lighting issue may be easy to resolve. Take each of the holders out in turn and clean the contacts with electrical cleaning fluid, then gently bend them up slightly. Clean the track on the light assembly then put the holder back in. Check BOTH ends of the earth lead are properly secured.
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Very nice car.
What are those wheels? Perhaps a 14" equivalent of or version of Volvo Omega wheels? Amyways. Those wheels look as if they should have centre trims, not those pudding basin things. And the trims would cover ordinary simple Volvo 240 wheel nuts. I do think so. P.S. Is there any incorrect bulb(s) in the rear lights? . |
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May I clarify the above please. I like the pudding basin things that you have covering the very centre of each wheel. And with those any correctly made domed nuts are good.. The ones that go with Virgo wheels would be a typical choice for domed nuts for a 240. I do think those wheels started life with simple wheel nuts, not domed, covered by a flat centre plate. If someone can tell us the name of your wheels, you might find some second hand flat centre plates, and simple nuts, IF you want to. It's a nice looking car. Have fun. . |
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There was some talk above about what type of wheels were fitted to the car, and what were the right wheel nuts(!). Well, I have no idea what the wheels are called, but they seem to be the same as this fitted to car, currently for sale on eBay:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-Volv...53.m1438.l2649 ... it looks like they should come with a small flat hubcap. I have no idea about wheel nuts, the ones on the car look fine to me :-) Alan PS. I found a couple of spare wheels the same for sale on eBay - it is part #1229535. The centre cap seems to be part #283092, but that does not seem to be available anywhere (not even a photo). I'm tending to think that what I said above about the original car coming with some flat hub caps might be wrong - reading through a forum discussion on this: https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/fo...ic.php?t=92580 ... it would seem that the correct cap is the small one you have fitted already (and maybe that is #283092 - perhaps written inside?). PPS. I know - I need to get out more :-) Last edited by Othen; Jul 12th, 2020 at 17:54. |
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Aha. Having made the effort to look through the turbobricks link (thanks for the reminder Loci) It looks as if your wheels Agnew are the: Early GT - 20 spoke 14 x 5.5 J x 20From that image it looks as if those were fitted without centre caps. Which seems odd because the central area of the wheel is unfinished. So being without centre caps they have domed wheel nuts. Any made with the centre cover would, as said before, need ordinary steel wheel nuts. The cover would physically not fit with domed wheel nuts. Those in that link are shown there with a different design of little "pudding basin" central covers compared to what is on your car now. The type of pudding basin on your car now were used quite a lot on 240s with steel wheels, shortly before the [ghastly awful] plastic wheel trims were introduced. This link to Oz Volvo Forums shows wheels like your Agnew, but with a finished central area. https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/7191/...els-with-tyresSo. Overall. I reckon. Your version of the wheels Agnew with an unfinished central area probably had centre caps, like those Omega wheels below, and ordinary wheel nuts. The version with a finished central area, seems to have had little pudding basins, and domed wheel nuts. P.S. This link show the 15" Omega wheel, with centre cap, that I mentioned before. http://www.240.se/falg/1359180.jpg I do like the look of your car. . Last edited by Stephen Edwin; Jul 12th, 2020 at 22:28. |
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Very easy mistake to make Othen. When I first saw Omega alloys on a car I mistook them momentarily for plastic wheel trims.
I have since bought that set of Omegas, they are on my car now. The plastic wheel trims look very very similar to the 15" Omega alloys. And the Omega alloys are very like the 14" alloys that Agnew has on his car. Comrade Stephen Edwin . |
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