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Stripped it out and LBS returned it to Ison who exchanged for a reconditioned hub (and I assume sent mine back to Germany to be reconditioned and then used as a replacement for someone else...). I was getting the wheel rebuilt anyway so no big hassle really, there was a bit of a delay as it was sent back just before Christmas and both ISON and LBS were shut for a bit and were waiting for reconditioned hubs to arrive back from Germany with the right drilling etc. all explained up front, probably would have been sorted within a week had it been any other time of the year.
Doing a bit more thinking, I'd forgotten (deliberately?) about a particularly grim stretch of bridleway in Wales where I must have submerged the hub (remember draining shit of of the BB) and another river crossing at 4am which was thigh deep - both times must have seen the hub underwater. The hub was on my 29er and it looks like I recorded 2000km on it (mainly in the Peaks, nice and gritty...) + ???km of regular evening rides at the two local trails for ~18 months, hard to say in total...
I have another SP hub on the road/cross bike - that's done 4000km of "rides" and around 2 years of commuting/errands and is still super smooth.