If anyone read this it didn't know how to help out then u might be curious as to what happened.
I actually got it running through some old sch moves plus the vmc2 diagnostic and drove it to Ford.


So Ford put this down to a software fault/crash.
Basically it got stuck in a loop because of the steering lock failing and it could not recover until I manhandled the steering lock...

Ford basically rebooted/reinstalled everything on the software side and it's happy as pig in poo
RS is back to normal service!