Q: My car is putting off code p-0500 vehicle speed sensor.
Sense I've had my car (3 years) The code p0500 comes on and off. If I don't drive on the freeway for a few weeks, the light will turn off. Every once in a while my car will automatically start going faster or slowing down if I'm driving between 60-75mph. But when I hooked up my car to the high grade code reader, I individually looked up the speed sensor and it was fine. I drove it for over an hour with it. My question is, does this sound like a wiring issue, or that I need to change my sensor? When I bought my car it was only 45,000 miles on it. I've read that's way too soon for the part to go bad. I've cleaned it and nothing. I was also told there's more than one speed sensor on manual cars. Please help!
My car has 118000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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