I have 2 Camry V6 LE's, a 2000 (96,000) mi and a 2002 (45,000). They're both great cars and I'm planning on keeping them until the fall apart, which the they're going probably won't be in my life time. I never have had any problems with ether car until now. I took the 2002 in for a Calif. smog check, when on the rollers, under load the check engine light came on and showed the code P0500 which is for the vehicle speed sensor. I took the car home with the check engine light still on and the speedometer and tach working. Got home waited 2 hours went out and started the car, and no light! Next day took the car back for a retest still no light, until on the rollers the light comes on with the same code. Now the light stays on with the speedometer still working. I checked the service manual I have for the 2000 Camry and it states that if the VSS fails the speedometer fails as well. I heard that it can be a false reading and that it can be the Throttle Position Sensor. it's easy to change ether sensor, but they're not cheap. If I replace the VSS is this going to cure the problem or ? I can't afford to keep replacing sensors chasing a fix. Sorry for the length of this post, hope some one can give me an answer.

 

The link below may have your answer:

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=306904

Get the code(s) cleared if you can then drive around for a few days. If no CEL would assume the issue is with the smog station testing procedure.

 

Thank you for the info.

 

might be too late to help but i just did the p0500 repair. go to my post Dwight_Mann