UM Rebel

Let my grandson use corvette last night now code B0516 H. Speed over 200mph. Must have been breezy with top down. 😀

Mr. Black

Is it a manual trans? I think I read somewhere this can be from an over rev situation.

UM Rebel

Its A4
I have a Top Down Window Valet. I reset before he left. He never got over 58 mph. It won’t tell me how quick he got there 😀

bonesbrakr

Thats what happens when you let a fast woman in the car. She will set off all kinds of codes.

punz

It's home in one piece, be happy.

wrmiles

How are the tires?

My lowest mileage on rear tires was the year of my son's prom.

Vetteman Jack

Nice of you to let him use the car and good that there was no damage done.

Stingroo

Could be a hiccup from the speed sensor at the rear of the car. I'd clear it and ignore unless it comes up more frequently or you start noticing issues with the speed readout..

My speed sensor, when it failed (261,000 miles, mind you) would do all sorts of interesting things with the gauges. Like for example, the speedometer wouldn't even move at all until the car was going about 40mph. Then it was dead nuts accurate (according to my GPS, anyway). And when you slowed down, it would jump erratically once it got below 40 (think like, 45, 40, 35, 65, 22, 12, 45 again for some reason, then finally read zero while decelerating - it was fun to watch the needle dance around). These readings (or lack thereof in low speed driving) were the same on the cluster and the HUD.

Glad it made it home in one piece.

knewblewkorvette

Unless your C5 is HEAVILY modified, it didn't hit 200 mph. Stock top speed is around 174 mph and to get that last 26 mph takes a lot more horsepower.
Nice of you to let your grandson drive your Corvette. Me, I won't even let my daughter drive mine.

Stroker87

my son asked to take my h/c/i c5z a few times over the years started asking at 16 i turned him down not really worried about the car more him getting hurt (god forbid), now his 23 and this year bought is own 09 c6z with 6,600 miles lol

i got to drive it a few times he dont turn dad down when i ask for the keys

jackthelad

My 21 year old grandson now looks after my C5. He is an ASE certified mechanic and works for a shop that services high end imports, and supports race cars. I figure as he regularly does test runs in high end German iron, specially Porsches, he will be fine in a comparatively tame C5.

FourG63 97GST

that's an electrical glitch, likely speed sensor related. an A4 C5 isn't going 200

Autotragic

I think we can all agree on that.

Larrygto

If I remember right on my GTO if the rear tires spin faster than the front tires for an extended amount of time so kind of message pops up on the dash?