Yes think they sorted the water pump, the later ST24's like mine (2000) had cream coloured plastic water pump impeller, I changed mine to metal impeller anyway on hearing the horror stories and not knowing state of my car. The dodgy impellers were black plastic iirc on earlier 97/98 cars.
They are chain driven as well, so no cambelt to change.
Last edited by STEVEST24; Oct 17, 2015 at 01:05 PM.