Fog/Driving Light Conundrum

volvodriverman

My opinion is that driving lights below the bumper are a bit useless, fine for fog lights though. They always look added on to me on a 2 series vs the 7 series which have cutouts in the spoiler. Don't suppose a 7 series spoiler fits?

What about gt style driving lights in that nice new grille!

carnut222

volvodriverman
My opinion is that driving lights below the bumper are a bit useless, fine for fog lights though. They always look added on to me on a 2 series vs the 7 series which have cutouts in the spoiler. Don't suppose a 7 series spoiler fits?
What about gt style driving lights in that nice new grille!

I had these driving lights on our 88 240 below the bumper and they still worked fine...yeah, they do look a bit tacked on. I think I might have to mock it up with some sort of temporary bracket so I can mess with the position before drilling any holes. If it looks shit I'll give it a miss. I have some of the 242GT or early GLE mounting brackets and grille, but it's for the round or square headlamps not the rectangular ones. Did they make a specific grille with fog lamp cut-outs for the large rectangular headlamp set-up? I'm not cutting into my NOS grille but guess I could experiment with the old one? :)

timbo

Maybe Rally spec?

carnut222

timbo
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/565/DK61SJI7HVLS.jpg
Maybe Rally spec?

Looks a bit like an alien tumour! ;)

Two_Four_Zero

I too am curious if there is a GT style grill and light setup that fits.

GreenGL

Mounted with inner edge of the driving lamps aligned with inner edge of headlights looks best IMO (i have seen a number of boxy cars with similar setups), but you may have to put extra holes in your bumper, or somehow use an L or S shaped bracket to make use of the factory holes..

carnut222

GreenGL
Mounted with inner edge of the driving lamps aligned with inner edge of headlights looks best IMO (i have seen a number of boxy cars with similar setups), but you may have to put extra holes in your bumper, or somehow use an L or S shaped bracket to make use of the factory holes..

Yeah Chris - I'm leaning towards that position. I want to move them as far rearward towards the spoiler as possible to tuck them under the bumper bar, so it may require a short bracket and a cut-out in the spoiler to tuck them back a bit...I don't mind drilling a couple holes as necessary in the bottom surface of the bumper bar.

GreenGL

I came across this image of another 240 wagon and thought of you Greg, another option for driving light mounting that I also think looks good.

carnut222

Reviving an old thread. I ended up putting these lights on my gold 240 Turbo wagon instead. I drilled new holes for them as I didn't want to mount them in the outboard position (too susceptible to damage and looks naff in my opinion).

Here's what it looks like on my car. Sorry its not a front-on shot…

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Found a pic from just after I installed them:

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And here's a pic of the 240 Turbo wagon conversion my dad used to own with them way outboard - yeah, nah! Currently for sale on Bring a Trailer in the USA:

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Forg

I fitted a set to my first car, a '76 Corolla, in a similar outboard position ... they looked just as Marty Feldman on my car as they do on that. 😃

GreenGL

The inboard/outboard comparison really makes a strong case for inboard mounting.

I think the official Volvo driving/fog light spacing is a bit further out, I did mine as per the factory instructions which are in the ozvolvo archive somewhere.

carnut222

GreenGL It must have varied based on the year and market, as the Volvo accessory brochures I posted show them quite far inboard, whereas some of the later cars seem to show them quite far outboard (possibly to utilise the existing spoiler mounting holes to save drilling new ones?)