JX, after 6ish there is no one to talk to at the dealership. At this point service is closed and the only people left are sales folks and a receptionist.

The car is back at the shop this morning. They are going to check the codes and try to figure out what the problem is. Hopefully it's nothing major and can be taken care of easily. Hopefully all the problems are related like someone said earlier.

 

Service department just called and said they are done with the vehicle. Everything is back to normal (so they say.)

Turns out that a connector which was unplugged to work on the throttle body yesterday was not fully connected when it was put back together and that threw a code and caused all the other problems to occur. The remote start, traction control and the hard shifts were all related to this engine warning light set off by this bad connector.

I'm picking it up in a few hours and hopefully everything is perfect as they say.

 

Sounds very plausible. Let's hope that's the end of it and that your cold starting issues are behind you.

I'd intentionally leave it in the cold a couple of times to find out, but that's just me...

Yves

 

Yves, I could do that but I'd have to wait for mother nature to give me that oppurtunity (which may not happen until next winter, if we're lucky)