Sounds like those modules needed a clean reset after loss of Vbat and/ or possible surges from the jump start. No, car companies don’t build in traps intentionally to cost you money. Only Apple does that.
“No, car companies don’t build in traps intentionally to cost you money.”
OH, contraire, mon frere. In the late 80s and early 90s, Chrysler vehicles had a check engine light that was programmed to come on at a certain mileage. In the late 80s vehicle, you could reset it by taking out the instrument cluster, removing a 9 volt battery, and depressing a set of contacts and holding it for a while. On the early 90s Chryslers, the only way to reset it was to take it to someone with a programmer and pay them to reset it. It was a very unpopular feature.