Every KIA spectra driver should see this video .................... thanks man

Thank you so much I have tried so many things I did changed the speedo and two sensors with no luck ............ today will go home and follow the wires hopefully can find the problem in the junction box. This was a pain to drive a car for two years without speedo meter.

Did this a month ago and this worked! Speedometer and odometer have been working like a charm!

You are the man, this worked on my car 💯

Yours did the trick man thanks for this video! Drove it to like 4 different places and had to go back twice lol. Worked every single time and it's not spotty anymore. Now waiting for the drive cycle to complete so the damn check engine light stay off and I can inspect and re-register this pos.

Just did this, thanks for posting, it helped a lot!

Thanks! Every mechanic told me to change the speed sensor and cluster. Ran a diagnostic with a friends diagnostic computer and everything checked out. Bypassed the green and orange wire so far speedometer has not shutdown after getting hot.

Solved my problem. Thank you!!

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

ty for your time and help very much

i did it last weekend problem fixed thanks

The speed sensor is actually located down low on back side of the motor on the 2005 Kia Spectra. There are two sensors on top under the air cleaner and one further back and down. The further back sensor has three wires that route into the same wire protection plastic wrap as the back sensor on top. If you separate the plastic wire protection you will find the wire that goes to the sensor lower down. The wire color is the green with orange strip. Connect the wire from here to the wire on back of the cluster as show in video.

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good job my brother

I bought a 2007 kia spectra for my son and it has the same problem 100's of them have. that wire from sensor runs through the Junction box and then to the speedometer. if your speedometer works fine in cold weather or when you first star tit up until the motor warms up then most likely its the connection in the junction box that is loosing continuity from corrosion or heat expansion. Basically what he did was run a jumper wire directly from sensor to speedometer connector. You can use any single conductor wire with good primary insulation as long as it is at least the size of the original sensor wire. They sell simple crimp style connectors that will splice your new bypass wire into the old wire. I would use single conductor 16 gauge wire. its cheap enough and should handle it just fine. If your ambitious enough you could find the wire going into the junction box and out of the junction box and splice a short jumper across them cause the bad spot is usually in the junction box itself and that would save you from tearing the dash apart.

Great idea thank you it worked

it works for me 🤗🤗🤗 thanks very much brother

What would be the correct wire for this?

Does anyone know if this will work on a manual transmission also? I have an 2005 Kia Spectra5.

Does anybody know the 20 pin guage cluster wiring order for a 2004 Kia spectra lx.I was working on speedometer and followed the wrong diagram...

So do you slice it into green from the back of the cluster, into the back of the transmission speed sensor, green wire, too...?

guys let me help you out here. if you need to locate the vehicle speed sensor wire just take a multi meter. put it on ac not dc and back probe the wires of the speed sensor. when you start moving the car the ac voltage will rise. there is the wire you need to splice into. you can also take the instrament cluster out pack probe the wires of the biggest harness from the instrament cluster and do the same when the voltage goes up thats the speedometer wire thats coming from the vehicle speed sensor. hope this helps

FYI to 2006 + owners The wire is in a different spot on the 20 pin capacity connector. The color is the same on the back of the cluster but it is pink on the sensor. I also found that the pink wire was severed approximately 3 inches down the wire from the sensor, so I just fixed (soldered) it there to complete the repair.

Did this on a 04 spectra wire at trans is pink and the one at cluster is green organe

The speedometer on my car fails after driving the car for a while, then works again when it gets cold im just wondering if that was the same issue you had that caused you to splice the cables because that is what i found when i searched through all the forums on kia, even after changing the speed sensor i still have the problem

so u recommend to cut or use that connector ?

This is a lot of work even for 2004. Can you, ppl please help me? Thanks.

I do not recommend the wire I'm using. Go out and buy the correct type of wire. It's my car so I used what i had.

Hi , i have a question, where did u attach the white wire? To wich wire on the sensor cause i have different color.thank u in forward

The Sensor have not green and orange cable

Could you tell me which color cable to connect to the speed sensor? Thank you.

I try but not working

srry bro what was that cable the white one and how could I attach it

Explanation of connection FORTE (CERATO) HYBRID 940031Q000

This is super funny. no indication of what problem you have or how you came to that conclusion. just replace a wire. LOL what if the plugs undone? what if the speed sensors bad? what if the ECu is not reading the sensor because of ground issues ? OR could be the actual unit in the dash has a problem. i just came back here because I watched this first and then went to watch others and saw there were many issues that can cause a non working speedometer this was the funniest because the first step is not diagnosis of the problem. LOL it;s we gonna remove some screws. The vacuum wire was funny as well. there might have been no problem at all except for the plugs were lose or corroded and connection got broken, you might have fixed it just by disconnecting and reconnecting and the rest of all that may not even have been necessary . You know what I mean, like going out to the garage , saying this car is not running without checking anything at all, popping the hood replacing a spark plug and the using your key to start it and drive away then declaring the car was not running but you fixed it by replacing that spark plug. LOL What happen? LOL

Hi,, spectra 04 how to fix it, still don't understand

TO THOSE WHO DID the fix: Was your odometer broke also?