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Thanks for sorting this out Steve.

Hi Tim, A towbar on the car usually wins when it is arguing with a wall! Peter.

It's a bit difficult to provide a quantitative answer on the info provided Tim. It might be a sensor, it might be the ABS unit... or it might be totally unrelated, as some faults are on the S-Type. Need more detail on the car I think. Price, age spec etc. My initial reaction would be, if the seller won't fix it, walk away, there'll be another around the next corner, as it were. But, if it might otherwise be a bargain... Welcome to JoC btw :)

Finally got the exhaust finishers on today and only took few minutes to fit.

I have been off work this week and decided to fit the aftermarket heated seat kit from Ebay. The kit is the type with two pads per seat with 'carbon fibre' elements so the pads can be cut and two heat settings. I now realise why the guys I use at work charge £400 to supply and fit these ! Both seats out of the car, partially remove the leather covers (cutting the 'hog rings' is a pain in the.....) and then the real fun starts ! The sports seats in my S-Type have metal rods that run across the foam to attach the hog rings too as well as the usual metal rods running front to back. The instructions are poorly translated from the original Chinese but from scouring the internet it seems that I needed to cut out the mats to avoid contact with the metal rods running laterally. This was another pain in the..... neck, as was threading the cable ties under the metal rods to reattach the seat covers. I ended up removing the centre console and running new power feeds to each seat from the cigar lighter with individual heater switches on each seat. As far as I can tell from the Jaguar tech manual, the existing power supply to the seats is a constant live rather than switched so could leave me with a flat battery if I managed to leave them switched on. I took the opportunity to add an extra 12v socket in the armrest, my poverty spec car did not have it as a factory fit. So I now have heated seats that seem to work reasonably, take longer to heat up than the factory fit on my XE but I don't expect perfection. However..... I now have a bad back from carrying the seats around and covered in cuts and scratches from wrestling with the seat covers and hog rings ! I did consider taking some pictures but my antique digital camera has decided to expire, my mobile is so old that any attempt to take pictures on it results in sepia tinted pictures of people in Victorian dress !