If they are genuine Volvo carpet mats they should say what vehicle they are for underneath. For example, the largest original mat from my V90 says 960 Passenger Left in moulded writing on the underside. If you got that set of grey carpet mats that went for under £30 on eBay last weekend then you got a bargain. I’d intended to bid on those but forgot! Your originals could be originally designed for a LHD 940. They are moulded differently and have the reinforced part on the left hand side. I have got a set of soft rubber ones in one of my 940s which are an acceptable fit. The mats were a dealer option and it is unlikely that a dealer on the Continent had RHD mats in stock.
Notwithstanding that one of your spare clusters had bits missing, and if you’re anything like me you’d have more than one, wouldn’t the simplest way to get an MPH speedo be to swap the whole cluster for a UK or US one of the same model year? You could then just keep the KPH cluster to refit in the future if you wanted to restore originality. If you had proceeded with the nightmare route of replacing the decal on the KPH instrument and recalibrating the odometer you could also have recalibrated the needle by adjusting a resistor on the PCB in line with the percentage out it was. I think the chances of ending up with a mess would have been high though.
If you’ve got the cluster out it’s a good opportunity to fit an external temperature gauge if the car doesn’t already have one. This is very easy to do on a late, pre-wired car provided you get the right parts. White plug on the gauge on a 940. FWIW the original part numbers were 9166579 for the upgrade kit gauge and 1347010 for the sensor. The latter is still widely available. If you fit a secondhand gauge put a new bulb in it before putting everything back together.
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