Bulb holders for XC90

[MarkW]

Morning all!

One of the bulb holders on the rear light harness of my old XC90 has failed. The contacts inside have corroded and broken off, and as it's a sealed unit I can't get in to fix it. The cheapest second hand harness on EBay is £33 with postage, which seems a bit steep when all I need to do is replace a single bulb socket.

Does anyone know what kind of socket it is, and where I can get them? I've tried Halfords, Euro Car Parts and my local independent store, but no joy. I haven't bothered with Volvo - if past experience is anything to go on their solution would probably be to say I needed to have the back end of the car chopped off and a new one welded on.

This is what the bulb holders look like:

 

 

Any help much appreciated!

[oldgrump]

Hi [mention]MarkW[/mention] found these on Ebay, Item no 253958248916 might take awhile to get them, have you got a Car Breaker near you. Looks like they fit a lot of cars so they maybe able to help.

[Joeman]

How often do the bulbs blow?? Cut the wires solder directly to the bulb..

[Via]

Look fairly standard bulb holders what bulb was it?

Is current harness the same? If so you should be able to replace it with a matching holder for bulb (e.g. Double contact vertical offset which is your normal stop and tail)... https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132420307534

[Via]

Actually ignore that, whilst bulb holder would be standard the holder connecting that to rear light cluster would be proprietary.

You could drill/cut out center of old holder so your saving that bit and glue onto new bulb holder, but could end up a lot of work for saving a few quid.

[rennie]

we had similar problems with our campervan!

all the connections/lampholders were knackered/corroded.

after a lot of searching we bought complete new rear lights

including lamps off Ebay for about £30 each