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I was over that way this evening going to the Corn Exchange in Lynn, if you saw and heard a blue S Type with J reg plates, that was me. Normally i lurk next door to Top Gun in Lakenheath though.

Welcome aboard James! You're not far from me i think as i'm in Suffolk but also close to the Norfolk/Cambs/Suffolk border! Enjoy your XF!

Not sure on the XKR but fairly certain on the S Type that one ABS sensor also doubles as the speed sensor. If that's the case, there is an intermittent fault somewhere on that sensor or that circuit. I might be wrong on this so double check your wiring diagram but it seems too much of a coincidence that both the speedo and ABS throw a fault at the same time. Also the PCM usually gets a speed signal from somewhere to tell it about the road speed/engine load etc to determine what gear it should be in so again, this points to one common component - whether that's an ABS sensor or what, i can't say but i know someone had a very similar fault with an S Type not long back and that was (i believe) an ABS sensor OSR if memory serves but might be wrong, been asleep since then!

I don't know about discount codes but can recommend Adamesh. Bought a pair of stainless back boxes for my S Type last year, took about 3 months before i found the time to fit them only to find i'd been mistakenly sent a pair of S Type R boxes by mistake. They sent the correct boxes through and then collected the wrong ones a few days later once i'd fitted the right ones and packed the wrong ones into the box. Very pleasant to deal with, no problems at all on doing the swap, excellent all round. If you're paying via Paypal, you could sign up for honey.com, it finds and applies discount codes to many online purchases so you may be lucky........

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Welcome aboard David! I'm on my 3rd Jag now (1999 S Type) and i doubt i'll go back to another make now. Everyone on here seems friendly and helpful, hope you enjoy your XKR!

Sounds like a normal diesel to me! 😛 Seriously, diesels accelerate by overfueling as the amount of air entering the engine isn't restricted with a throttle butterfly like in a petrol. It may be it needs an Italian Decoke which would burn excess sooty deposits from the exhaust which can contribute to black smoke from the exhaust under aceleration and some injector cleaner may help too. https://www.halfords.com/motoring/engine-oils-and-fluids/fuel-and-oil-additives/comma-diesel-magic-400ml-264671.html I've heard good reports in the past few years about that stuff and used it myself about 20 years back in a diesel works truck. If you keep your eyes peeled while out and about, you'll no doubt see someone giving a diesel the beans andyou should see a similar black cloud from their tailpipe(s), remember when comparing it to yours that it always looks worse in your mirror than from someone elses car. There could be other reasons such as a previous owner has had it chipped, turned the boost up or similar, all of which would result in bigger clouds of black under hard acceleration while still allowing an MoT pass.

Rock and hard place come to mind! 😮 If you buy a replacement head (cost???) then you get the car up and running in a saleable condition. If you then provide the original head to the new owner to do with as they think fit (get it repaired and fitted to the car for originality or polish it and use it as a garage ornament or just plain junk it) then i don't see the value being reduced. Also here in the UK, we're not quite as focussed on "all matching numbers" as it seems our stateside cousins are. With this in mind, in the UK it wouldn't make any difference unless someone really wanted originality and even then, there's no way the car could be truly original at 60+ years old. Tyres, brake parts, the list is long of parts that wear out and besides, after a full restoration, it would be unlikely the engine would be original to most 60 year old UK cars. What are the costs of having the original head repaired with guaranteed work and how does that compare to the cost of the replacement head? If those costs are similar then the answer is fairly simple, get the existing head repaired and fitted, this would satisfy the "matching numbers guys" and not really cost more. I can't really comment on the value decrease for the reasons above, however i do know from having watched things like Counts Kustoms and similar that in the USA a premium is usually applied to the price when selling a matching numbers car and is normally paid happily by the buyer for that provenance. Not much fact-based arguments above, more like based on what i feel is a common-sense approach to your dilemma but hopefully you can take something from it and make a decision.

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