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Circuit Description

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Vehicle speed sensor is located near rear of transaxle. Vehicle speed sensor outputs a 4-pulse input signal for every revolution of the drive gear in transaxle to the instrument cluster where input signal is converted to a rectangular waveform and then sent to the to ECM. DTC is set if there is no vehicle speed signal to ECM while vehicle is being driven. Possible causes are: