[radz28]

09.02.2022 - UPDATE:

Bottom line to the issue - I'm a dee-dee-dee. I wasn't scanning the correct CHANNEL. All is good now.

FWIW - maybe someone could learn from my mistake, so I'll add that I think what happened was I just got a little lost and didn't really take into consideration what I was doing in a way. For the longest time, for some reason, my search for transmission gear position in the SCANNER didn't yield terms I was looking for. To be clear: that's not to say that anyone else's terms make less sense than mine. It's like Google - if you don't use good terms when you search, you'll just be limited in your return response. So - what I got out my initial searches culminated in me just using the exhaust transmission gear PID to display my current gear (for the last couple years). Don't ask why I didn't see the TCM PID for this - I don't know why (dee-dee-dee)... Then, several months ago, I found the TCM PID, and started using that. Because I will sometimes start completely over on a tune just to make sure the 3rd order polynomials don't get crazy on VVE/VTT and whatever, I think I forgot what PID I was using in the SCANNER, and selected the wrong one. I didn't notice for a while, but when I did, by that time, I already forgotten about the correct PID and all that, and started worrying, which brought me to where I am now.

Lesson, learned, again. Just take more time in determining what PIDs you're looking for. Understand the controllers you're actually trying to get data from. Understand how to access those controllers. Scale back the amount of PIDs that are unnecessary.

I hope this might help someone else.