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Crazy Speedo causes crazy accelerating

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Old 03-10-2010, 02:36 PM
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When my 01 Grand Sport is not running the speedo sits at 9 mph. When running and not moving, my speedo needle goes crazy, flipping back and forth. When doing this, if I try to pull out of my driveway (in D or R) I get jerking out of the van, which then smooths out when I get going.

I have changed the in/output speed sensors with no change in behavior...however it did get rid of all of the trans codes that were indicative of speed sensor issues.

It was not until I was experiencing the speedo issue and jerking of the van, that it constantly showed 9 mph over.

Any ideas on what is causing this or what I can do to fix it all?
 
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Old 03-10-2010, 05:45 PM
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You are going to need to get access to a scan tool to see what is causing the issue. It could still be in the transmission, the PCM or the cluster. That is a tough problem to just guess at because it could be so many different things.
 
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Old 03-10-2010, 09:00 PM
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I take it that you mean a snapon-type scanner, vs. the Autozone scanners...? Because it has been scanned by one of those.
 
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You need to be able to read sensors while driving the vehicle to determine what is causing the speedo to malfunction.
 


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