2001 Dodge Caravan Pulling the dash on the Grand Caravan

The speedometer is not cable-driven and not a regular voltmeter. It is a stepper motor which has four electromagnetic coils that are pulsed by the computer circuitry in the instrument cluster. All you have to do is drive the vehicle on the highway at a speed greater than half the maximum on the gauge. At that point, the magnetic pointer will look for the shortest way to the desired reading so it will come down from the stop.

If that doesn't work, the Chrysler dealer can connect their hand-held scanner, the DRB3, which can run all the gauges through their range and back down to zero. Aftermarket scanners can not do that function.

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