What are the odds?

What are the odds of the oil pressure gauge pegging and vehicle speed sensor going bad within two minutes of each other? I'm thinking I may have disturbed a ground somewhere.
Started jeep up and headed into town, I instantly noticed my oil pressure gauge was pegged high. Then within a minute I notice my speedometer not working. Then 30 seconds later the CEL comes on. Scanner says faulty vehicle speed sensor.

It's a jeep anything can happen but you may be on the right track with a grumpy ground. I have a Renix and grounds are the first thing checked.

I had some weird problems and cleaned all my ground points and replaced my battery terminals and ground strap and they all went away.. Been fine since.

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What year? I'd suspect the connector at the back of the cluster if you have multiple instrumentation problems.

2000 XJ.

On my 97 the gauges usually read zero and the ABS light comes on when the gauge cluster connections are at fault. It's oil pressure sensor was going out and would read low and wavy. On my 01, oil pressure pegging was a bad sensor. The temperature sensor would also be a bit wonky, and dip, and that was a bad connection at the sensor. I can't relate to your experience because I've not seen it but you can whack your instrument cluster and see if it wakes up and go from there. Checking grounds is always a good idea. It just seems that oil pressure and speed are different connectors so I'm not sure...

Well today they both started working again. I'm sure this problem will never rear its ugly head again! LOL