Hey Z - thx for the welcome back - always good to know I can come back here for help after just lurking around and learning from the vast knowledge base that is shared on this most awesome forum. Yeah tried every which way...really spent a lot of time with my technologically adept son who bought the MX+ for me as a Christmas present. I think he is geeking for the gauges, logging capabilities, and diagnostics worse than I am. Frustrating to say the least..other thing that has occurred is that I unpaired my android phone from her during this process and now I can't get it paired back up with the car. Get an error like I did when we were trying to fire up the obdlink app with the mx+..sync is disabled and may need to be reinstalled...but after going through this process and taking her out for a cruise... no issues with SYNC3 or any of the other things that were popping up during the process...advance trac, adaptive cruise, parking sensors....etc...etc....Will work on getting phone re-paired tmrw. I have a post on the scantool forum regarding this issue as well but thought I would chk here to see if anyone else is dealing with this issue with a 2018 SHO. I want my new toy to work...I feel like a five year old that got my first hot wheels car and the wheels won't spin!!!