thank you both for the great response.

When I took the car in for the problem a few weeks back, because the problem is intermittent and would seemingly reset itself and read NO MALFUNCTION after a restart, the service writer told me there was NO way to check for stored codes.

Also when I took the car in a few weeks back, because the malfunction would display as I was getting out of the car, due to habit I had turned the ignition off before reading the malfunction explantion with either the reset button or steering wheel tab. So I went into the dealership thinking their scanner would retrieve previous malfunctions, but the dealership said that wasn't possible.