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2018 Impreza p0500

Hi everyone, I’m working on my wife’s 2018 Impreza and I’ve hit a hell of a roadblock.

I put the car on jack stands to listen for a bad wheel bearing, and turned off what I thought was the collision alert and traction control.

Had my father in law get in and drive the car while I listened with my mechanic stethoscope.

The car lit the dash up like a Christmas tree. SRF OFF TPMS BRAKE EYESIGHT (yellow) and I had to shut the car off to put it in park. The cooling fan also runs full blast. There was no speed reading on the dash either.

I put my wifi scanner with obdFusion on the car and pulled a code p0500. I clear the code and it comes right back. I hear a clicking in the engine bay and then the dash trees up again.

I disconnected the battery to reset the computers and cleaned corrosion off the terminals. I also charged the battery.

I drove the car last night and put five miles on it. I now have speedometer readings but no eyesight and the steering is requiring more effort to turn.

I replaced a failed front right wheel bearing a year and a half ago with a 3 year warranty precision unit from Oreilly and that bearing is not loose or making noise. That bearing has 45k miles on it. I did have the sensor bolt break on me when I was replacing the bearing, but I was able to drill the broken bolt out and the car has been trouble free to this point.

I can possibly use our Solus edge or ultra (not sure which) at work to scan all the modules but I’m really confused.

Did I destroy something in the car?

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