Update, the dealer has been checking this out and has run into the same trouble of communicating with the car. Service advisor said they will be doing more test tomorrow to try and determine what it is. He did advise me that its it possible that its the DME. I am sure this is not cheap from the dealer. Anyone ever have to replace their DME and Is this common?

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