You could read your own codes..
You have a OBDI system...
It will allow you to read them without a reader.
How many miles on the car?
A VSS sensor is on the transmission just below the oil filter.
.. but you would have shifting problems and others.
Banger, MA should fix you up.
Nice town, very pretty downtown on the river.
Hope they got the streets back in shape before the weather went bad.
Good Luck