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Hi mate, the colour is called "Gay Gold" here on the forum.  I had a 2.2 4pot the same colour, i miss it terribly. Welcome aboard.

Yes, come on Rangie, we need photos

Give him a chance. He's got to polish it first! 

When I had my heart valves replaced, my heart wasn’t functioning on its own so they fitted an external pacemaker. The wires went in at stomach level and up to my heart. When they were sure that I was breathing unaided, they went to pull the wires out, but after almost three months the wires had become fused into my body and wouldn’t come out, so they cut them off flush with my skin and left them in. I was convinced that I may get some grief when going/returning from holiday but it hasn’t happened yet.     Not related to the wires but I always seem to get pulled to one side for them to run the wand over me. I have no objection to that if stricter checks catch the bad guys. 

You should have asked them to leave a couple of terminals so you could easily get a jump start if needs be! 

Though I mostly used 3rd party diag tools for speed, if its something they can perform, as SDD does take an age to set up and get to the point when you can actually do something.

In fairness, it is faster on the XE than XJ, due to less options it has to check and communicate with

Are you using Topix or Pathfinder?

I would remove it and clean it anyway

That car is SDD, assume Pathfinder won't work on it?

Already removed as "cleaned" the hole part (which wasn't too bad), but not poked anything too far down, or used chemicals.

Are you using Topix or Pathfinder?

I would remove it and clean it anyway

I always get pulled in scanners for a possible metalic object in my thigh, so get the pat down routine.  Not, AFAIK, there is no metal in my thigh, and their handheld scanners done see it.

Like YZ, I must have a guilty face, as if I get through the scanner OK, I get pulled for a swab test

Fortunately, I've never had to endue the full test with the finger

Ive met you, and you do very much look like a wrongun. 

No, Mr Albs, you were looking in the mirror

Is the MAP sensor ok, reporting decent readings, and clean?

I'll see if I can get some readings and post up over weekend.  Though the car is fine, right up until a few seconds before it pops up RP...

Do you have any way to do a pressured smoke test?

From memory that was the error that that 2.0 Disco 5 had that I kept for about a week then sent back to the dealer. Something about a mismatch between manifold pressure and the air coming into it. The local indie hooked it up to a Strap-On smoke machine and pressurised it, result was chuffing smoke from somewhere under the inlet manifold - would have been impossible to see without removing the engine from the car, but definitely there. 

My symptoms were that the car stuttered and stumbled at low rpm/load situations, like if parked at a set of lights and just rolling away when they turned green, say 25% throttle. Or when pottering through a 30 limit. If you gave it a shoe full it behaved normally.

I don't have access to such a tool.  I was toying with getting one, as I think the only place I could have an airleak is in the intercooler - but we know airleaks can be hard to find if no telltale oil/soot marks.  I'd checked top of intake manifold, but not under it, although its a bit sooty under there following an O ring failure on the EGR in intake pipe a year or 2 ago.

Our symptoms are RP when cruising mostly at probably 50ish, but can appear under gentle acceleration at around 50mph, like down the sliproad of a motorway.

Its been ongoing for a fair while now, but is too intermittent to get any readings - probably once every 6 - 12 weeks.

Is the MAP sensor ok, reporting decent readings, and clean?

The readings look viable to me for both MAP and temp (I think both are in same sensor on that one?).  I've never managed to see the readings when it does go into RP, and the freeze frame data recorded on that car is pretty poor sadly.