Thanks all!
What can I say, today I was loaned a 05 999(the manager of the shops own machine, not a DucatiUK demo) with 600 miles on the clock, all was going well until 30miles up the road and it started spluttering at 6000rpm and would not pull cleanly, like it was running out of fuel, but it had a full tank, the "spanner" sign then appeared on the LCD dash, it continued like this until I returned to the shop, at one point it just cut out in traffic,
Not sure what to think now? Had bad experiance with 996, don,t want the same again, 998 I had laterwas very very good tho,