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Volvo 240 Lighting problems by year
6 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Volvo 240's lights. Headlights, tail lights, brake lights, turn signals and interior lighting failures.
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Latest 240 lighting complaints
I owned a 1986 240 gl volvo 4 door sedan. One night last month my wife was driving home and within a block of our house she noticed a fire on the back of the car. The driver's side tail light was on fire. I contacted volvo usa and about a month later they had an "expert" inspect our car. They will not give me a written report. The executive, joseph ([email protected]) called me and left a message saying that we had too large of a fuse in the fuse block and this is what caused the fire. I've tried...
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repeatedly to tell them that too large of a fuse didn't cause the dead short fire on our tail light. I googled tail light fires on volvo's and found several pages. I've had to scrap the car. The tow truck driver wasn't shocked to see the melted tail light on my volvo. He told me he had a 1984 volvo just like mine as his first car. He said his too had the same melted tail light fire as mine.
Defective replacement headlamp fixture parts (non-compliant with federal motor vehicle safety standards crash avoidance - standard no. 108 In part 571). These replacement headlamp fixtures (right and left) were purchased for a 1987 volvo 240 wagon. Note these same lamp fixtures are used in various trucks and rvs. Both the left and right hand versions of these new parts lacked much of the silver reflective coating around the bulb area, suggesting this is recurring quality control problem. Jpeg photos are...
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available on request showing headlamp light illuminating the engine compartment through the unsilvered parts of the reflectors. So much silver coating is missing from the left side fixture, the unlit headlight bulb can be seen through the reflector! The parts are labeled across the bottom of the lens as "djauto mvv111-c1ro (for right side or c1lo for the left side) 14v 7h dot sae hr00" with "hb1" in the upper outside corners. These parts were purchased from lampsandlenses - mvp imports, llc - frank's foreign auto, 595 valley street, orange, nj 07050, tel # 973-674-2254 on 10/22/09. A copy of the receipt is available. Note parts arrived in unlabeled plain brown boxes and cost $69.99 Each or $139.98 Total. *Tr
Consumer states he has been having numerous problems with rear tail lights, turn signal assemblies and the front marker light, consumer states that the materials that are being used are very brittle, consumer states over the last 18 months he has noticed numerous cracks, surface distortions, and clouding, also water enters the lens/refelctor assemblies and has further aggravated the problem by introducing road contaminates into the lens housing, as well as causing numerus premature bulb failures. *Jb
NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOVE VEHICLE. *AK
Cruise control/speedometer and odometer/air intake sensor/glove box door hinge heater/air conditioner indoor fan/ radio antenna/inside rear view mirror/dome light, tail light lense/catalitic converter/water pump/timing belt/plastic cover under engine/wheel studs/throttle cable/brackets that hold sunvisor/rocker panel trim molding around wheel wells/vent line for gas tank, and alternator failed.
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