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Vehicle Speed Sensor

Vehicle speed sensor, located in speedometer, is a reed-type sensor. See Fig 1 . Sensor converts transmission speedometer driven gear revolutions (vehicle speed) to pulse signals and sends them to ECU. Vehicle speed sensor generates 4 pulse signals for each rotation of speedometer driven gear.

Fig 1: Locating Vehicle Speed Sensor
G90C06277Courtesy of CHRYSLER MOTORS.