Transmission won't shift into overdrive, and speedometer doesn't work
The VSS for the CD4E is below the firewall transmission mount- on the transmission. It faces up. Crawl under the vehicle and look around the bottom of the driver's side firewall on the transmission.
The Vehicle Speed Sensor is located at the lower rear of the transaxle.
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Jan 18, 2012 I have 97 ford contour 2.0 engine. code was for speedo sensor few people told me look on driver side under airbox n take off tire easy access, I didnt find it. I COULD USE A PICTURE/diagram of its location PLEase . THANKS
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This might help you , " REPLACE SPEED SENSOR IN 1996 FORD CONTOUR And " Thanksto the above info, I was able to fix my 1995 Ford Contour VSS problems, however I think this
will make it easier for the Contour: With some of the above instructions copy and pasted here: jack up car on front driver side. Remove Drivers side front wheel. Crawl under car by firewall. Look up on transmission (mid vehicle), you should see the bottom of the VSS as it screws into the top of the transmission - loosen VSS (turn 1/4 turn). Open hood, Disconnect neg cable from battery (safety first) Okay at this point remove left Wheel and platic fender guard, look towards firewall and you'll
see the other end of the VSS connector, simply press and pull outwardly, this removes the vss, at least it was easier for me. I was told I needed a transmission, because of hard shifts and slipping out of gear, however it was the vss sensor, I just wanted to add that for those of you who are troubled, thanks again to the above post because it gave me hope I tried it and it worked! "
(For Zetec 2.0L) Set parking brake, jack up car on front driver side. Remove Drivers side front wheel. Crawl under car by firewall. Look up on transmission (mid vehicle), you should see the bottom of the VSS as it screws into the top of the transmission - loosen VSS (turn
1/4 turn). Open hood, Disconnect neg cable from battery (safety first) remove 3 long bolts holding down air intake over throttlebody. Unclip air filter top cover. Disconnect MAF connector. Lift off entire top air assembly, disconnect IAT sensor from under intake tube by MAF and put whole assembly away. You need to remove the rest of the Airbox, close to the firewall is a rubber band O ring holding down airbox, unhook. Then Pull up on airbox. You need to pull hard, it is held on by pins that push
through rubber donuts on each side of the box. When it comes off it'll make a huge pop and you'll swear you've broken something - you likely haven't. (It's super easy to put back, just push down - hard to remove though). With airbox off, you will see large wire harness, follow it back - as it reaches under the brake booster and throttlebody, you will see a small offshoot with a connector - that is the VSS connector. Even though it's fairly easy to see it's a PITA to unhook. One-handed
shennanigans, and some cursing required. Some small hands or really long needle nose pliers would help. Be careful, don't mess up the harness/connector side. When it's disconencted, go back under car and unscrew VSS and pull up. Then install new VSS. Reconnect nrew VSS to harness connector - hard again but not as bad as disconnecting. Then put everthing back together in reverse"