That's a pretty healthy pulse, actually, but the automotive environment is noisy. Looks like it is ringing quite a bit, hard to tell with that slow a timebase, but I'm not sure a ST will help here. You may want to just trigger a one-shot with a comparator. Maybe something like a [TLV3501][1], which is a fast-ish CMOS input comparator. Clamp the input voltage to ground with a pair of fast diodes (eg. 1N4148) and feed (through a resistor) to one input and ground the other input. That should give you a logic-level pulse train with undefined idle state. You can then capacitively couple that to a one-shot (eg. 74HC123) to generate a clean 1usec pulse (or whatever, but much longer than the ~100nsec ringing we see in your trace). [1]: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tlv3501.pdf