My cruise control quit working a while back. Since I had the speedometer out to repair the odometer I looked at the cruise control pickup. I see that it is a coil of wire on a small board. I tested continuity with my meter and got nothing. Shouldn't at least get something? How common is it for that coil to go bad?

I have two speedometer in my spare parts with cruse control pickup behind. The production year are about 1981 and 1984. I measured resistance between the two spade connections on both. They are 568 and 710 ohm. The appearance look the same.

Hope that helps.

Thanks. I'll check it again.

Another data point. I have a spare one - probably from an 83 or 84 240 speedo and testing between its spade terminals, it showed 560-565 ohms on my two multimeters.
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Son's XC70, daughter's XC60, my 83 244DL, 89 745 (Chev LT-1 V8), and XC60. Also '77 MGB with Chev V6, and four old motorcycles. Long gone: 1981 244, 1994 940 and 1998 S90.