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I have a 2000 S Type with 100,000 miles that I bought about 4 months ago. Within 2 weeks of purchase, the Failsafe engine light kicked in and went straigh into "limp home mode" I did some research and disconnected the battery, put some throttle body cleaner in it and the problem seemed to be fixed. A few weeks later it kicked on again, but this time it came on intermittengly and never went to the Amber light and Limp Home mode. About 4 weeks ago, I went into limp home mode again. I tried the same tricks but with to no avail. I took it back to the lot where I bought it, explained the situation and they said they cleaned the throttle body. 2 days after I got it home, it went into limp home mode. I had it towed to where I bought it and after taking the car to their own "specialist" they took it to the dealer and there it sits. HELP!! I really dont know anything about cars and am scared that on top of the 135$ just to look at the car, the dealer is going to want hundreds to fix it!!! Any thoughts on what it might be?? I have 3 little kids and drive 50 miles round trip for work... I cant afford ot be stranded anywhere!!!!

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The best thing to do is to have the car scaned with the diagnostic computer to see what fault codes are stored.
acording to the fault code you'll be able to work out what's wrong with it.
I'm sorry i ca't be anymore helpfull.

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