He was loaded in the pop music business and still is but even he complained about the service costs

I have a story about my fellow apprentice who ended up working for the Ford works team (he also as won the RAC rally as navigator a few times). 25 odd years ago he was in OZ testing the Focus and could not get it run correctly so dialled up Dagenham and said you do it and they did. Back then it was unheard of. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Arctic wrote:

Well over a year as passed now did it ever happen again and if so how was it solved please

Yes, it did! Sorry I should have come back and explained. I was waiting for it to be more definite - then forgot

It showed up as a faulty throttle solenoid giving occasional spurious readings. New one was about 35 quid and not much more to fit it. Since then it's been fine.

Colin 1982 RR Classic-converted to 200TDi-gone
1992 RR VogueSE- converted to autogas-gone
2000 FL1 3dr (wife's)
1996 Disco 1 300 Tdi(gone)
2007 FL2 TD4 GS auto (gone)
MY 2011 SD4 HSE Automatic

We ended up getting a new haldex unit fitted to fix this problem in the end... cost around £500 as I recall