The seller said the car had been sitting around (and there was cobwebs on the car), so maybe its condensation from lack of use as he thinks? He seemed like an honest fella and said it was not on the previous time he drove it.

"Many Rice Davis type statement"

Unless it is seriously seriously cheap compared to other S-types without the brake issues WALK - you could easily spend megabucks on a Jag.

A friend of a friend needed new disks & pads on a 2/3 yr old XF - so nothing complicated - he was quoted £600 by the main dealer who was servicing car - he had it done for a lot less elsewhere.

This is coincidental, my car did exactly the same thing with exactly the same indications. That's where the similarity ends of course because my car is a Daihatsu Sirion 1.5sx - and before anyone laughs it has ABS and VSC.

Anyway - I replaced a rear bearing hub, which has an integral ABS sender on it. I buttoned it all up and voila! I had the ABS, VSC, and the handbrake warning illuminate. I was a bit shocked because the job is only four bolts and an electric plug, and the other side I did the previous week gave no problems. So I pulled it all out and checked the resistance of the ABS unit against the old one and there was no resistance - it was apparent my new hub unit had a duff ABS sender.

I did fix it by swapping the old sender onto the new bearing assembly but to my horror the dash lights still stayed on. After much thinking I drove the car and after a hundred yards the light extinguished. It seemed the ECU needed to have a "think" about things. All is well after many miles.

I am still puzzling over why the handbrake light warning came on though.

Summing up it may just be a dead sender on this Jag and the only way to find out is check them by resistance (if you know what value it should be), or get a computer plugged into to interrogate the brake ECU. If it isn't a dead sender unit I would lose interest in this Jag.

Good luck. Regards.