BC99

Waterpump bearing? Or pulley bearing?

Mine doesn't have wires like that. You can get rear reflectors with lights in them, perhaps previous owner thought this was a way to wire them in? It's not a good way to do it though, and i would be concerned about how they are wired in if they thought putting wires through the vent was acceptable. There is a plug/grommet further up, on passenger side at least, that i imagine would be a better option than the vents if actually needed. Removing the rear bumper is very easy, just be careful to pretect the paint.

A flat battery on mine brought up a camshaft position sensor error code. Battery would be first thing to check.

I ended up buying a second hand unit, Removing the ballast was a nightmare, and I ended up with the inside of the headlight covered in muck. Everytime i touched that headlight something went wrong. Tried splitting it, but just managed to mangle the casing, i think to do it would need placing it in oven.

I read earlier models required doing something with the pedals to turn it off rather than just pushing the button.

the Videos show people using a heat gun on the seal, or suggestion to put it in the oven. 🤔 Might not even be neccessary and i can seal it from the outside hopefully.

I've ordered some new screws which should make it a little easier... I'm going to try repairing the existing one first, probably won't last but since it's removed and some guides recommend splitting it to remove the ballast, or at least i have full access to the unit i can try and find where the leak is from to seal it before replacing it.

I've now removed the headlight, the ballast unit is very dodgy looking, crusty. This headlight had condensation in it so seal had failed somewhere and presumably water found it's way in to the unit, so replacing it seems like it'd fail again. Going to check the price of a new one but probably buy a second hand one, front bumper was a pig to remove which was fun.

Hi, my low beam, drivers side headlight has stopped working. Changed the bulb, checked the fuse. I assume this means the ballast has gone and that's inside the headlight unit? Is there anything i can check, or is it a case of replace the entire unit? All other lights inside it work.

Did have belt noise from mine with failing water pump bearing. Can't remember how exactly bad it was, but it wasn't horrendous. If you move the tensioner to get slack in the belt, see if you can wobble the water pump pulley.

I've used them in the last month for couple of parts, a bumper bracket, and the boot vents. I initially added the wrong part to my order and completed it before realising, it wasn't easy to contact them but they did then cancel the whole order. Restarted it again, this time took a while to confirm parts in stock, they then messaged me to say that i must bear in mind i may be charged import duties that would be my responsibility, and if i wasn't willing to accept then not to continue. I went ahead after working out even with duty it was a good price, ultimately I didn't have to pay anymore (by chance?) and items arrived pretty quickly. Would definitely use them again.

any luck with this? Wasn't the engine/exhaust hitting sometime was it, looks to move quite a bit if that's the downpipe just visible.

The Alfa 155 dominated 1994, when the Volvo Estate raced. They used a homologation special (Silverstone Edition) to allow them to use an adjustable front spoiler, and a raised rear wing, apparently several of the parts weren't installed, just put in the boot. 🤣 Although according to Gabriele Tarquini it was the differential that made the biggest difference over the competition. (Interview with 1994 BTCC champion, Gabriele Tarquini.) The following season aerodynamic aids were permitted, which the estate couldn't use, something like the rear wing wasn't allowed to be visible from the front of the car, It wasn't banned, it was just no longer able to be competitive under the new regulations.

Not for me, but i recently removed a rubber spoiler from my bootlid and thinking it looks a bit odd without it. Pity there wasn't (largely decorative) wing options as per my favourite car of the '90s.

I had an issue in that area last year, It caused a fairly large petrol leak, which is an obvious fire risk, it started with a faint smell of fuel which i couldn't locate, and ultimately progressed. In my case i think it was caused by the steel retaining ring rusting, which put pressure on the top of the plastic pump and it cracked. The list of cars affected seem to almost exclusively be early direct injection vehicles, so i would have thought the issue would lie in the high pressure fuel line areas, rather than the low pressure parts. If it was just the electric pump in the tank and it's gasket, it would be incredibly simple to fix, albeit the pump would be costly if not secondhand.