we verified that the keys were turned all the way (position3) right before cranking, hold for 5 seconds and the process was repeated 3 times. after that the car did not crank. we tried this twice.
He did try to access from the trunk the electronic. could not. We will look for possible you tube video.
the manual seems to simplify the process.


He did remove from the botton rear passenger side of the car the "cover", we saw two rubber plugs (video conference), he did stick a skrew driver through both and there was no leak, the skew driver went through a good couple of inches or more.
We tested the panic button. the light flashes yet no sound from the siren . he remember that in the past (by mistake) he did hit the panic button and the siren went off.
We played with the tow-away alarm in the consol. (the electonic of this switch is in the trunk and it is part of the allarm system) we saw the button flashing as expected when pushed the upper portion of the switch. we tried to start the car after
doing this and it felt differntly. the car stall the first try, started the second time, stall the third time and then no more crank. We will repeate this process (playing with this switch before starting the car) and see if this was just a one time affair.

Daniel my son is 19, and his priority are friends/college/girls and not necessarily in this order.

Thanks!
Salvo