I have a 97 subaru legacy gt 2.5 wagon. The spedo isnt working and the car hits rev limiter at 4.5k rpm. Im thinking speed censor but not to sure. If anyone has any idea please let me know. Thanks in advance.

 

Get it checked out with an OBD2 scanner. If you can't get enough information from a generic OBD2 scanner, take it to a Suby dealer and get them to read it with their hardware. There are a lot more parameters that can be read with the Subaru SSM protocol than can be read with a generic scanner.

 

ok. Thanks for the heads up. Having it scanned tomorrow .

 

Sounds to me that the VSS,the speedo gear inside the transmission or the speedo head could be acting up. I would lean more towards the first two. Yes our SSMIII read a lot more than a scanner, but for $12,000 it should.

 

is there a cost for the scan or is it free?

 

Well nothing is free unless you take it to autozone and have them do it. However, there is no guarantee that scanning it will yield results unless there is a DTC. 99% of the time their little codereader will only read codes and the rest is up to you.
Usually if you want a technician to diagnose/scan expect to pay anywhere from 1/2 to 1 hours worth of labor of that shop. A technician's time is money.

 

i figured it was not free. prob 65-85 bucks. Thats cool.... Thanks

 

Post up on what they find.