Larry H

Hi guys,

Need some help here. When I push the clutch in to slow down for a light, about half the time my rpm's will dip down to below 500 and the car will vibrate like it's about to stall but never does. I don't have any engine-related CEL's and had my tuneup done about 5k ago.

I could be way off, but it feels like one of the accessories driven off the engine sometimes causes additional drag. I just had the water pump replaced last month because of overheating and I thought that would do the trick, but no luck.

Any ideas? I miss my rock-solid luxury car idle...

98SterlingMax

Sounds like a throttle body cleaning is in order...read the stickies.

njmodi

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Could also be that your base idle is set too low... that (setting the base idle) is also explained in the stickies.

Larry H

forgot to mention...read the stickies and did a search a while back...had the throttle body cleaned, and the idle is set to factory spec, around 600 rpms. throttle body cleaning helped a little but now it's the same.

just trying to get some advice from anyone who succesfully fixed this problem...

njmodi

iTrader: (4)

You may also want to try to clean out your IACV... that is what controls your idle speed...