Guys does anyone notice a small fluctuationin in RPMs when the car is Idle i guess are cars idle at 800 RPMs well is it normal for it to fluctuate a little downward and then come back up to 800 i mean this happends very quick and the longer i let it idle the less
it does it over all it very smooth just woundering if anyone eles noticed this
i run 93 oct for gas

 

check your air filter?

may be a vacuum leak somewhere as well...very doubtful, but this is what caused my friends boosted RSX to jump from 2k to 1k to 2k to 1k until it died.

 

smooth no fluctuation whatsoever, seems like the smoothness and power just keep coming

 

I guess this was a bad post after really Observing the idle it's really smooth it's not luxsus smooth but the car does run good

 

Our 2005 is very smooth,We run 93 oct also.

 

at idle the Lexus/Toyota 3.5 V6 is smooth and silent but once you get on it, it sounds cheap and tin like, not very impressed with it, they make a great V8 and the 2JZ is one of a kind but the engine is not their strong point, Im not 100% positive but the Toyota and Ford 3.5 are clones of the Nissan VQ, from what I've read.

The previous 3.0 and 3.3 drove and sounded better, not faster but I'd take an ES330 over an ES350 and my father has an ES350

 

When my 04 was new in the summer of 03, people would ask if the engine was running (when it was) -- because it was so smooth and quite. Now that I have 64 K miles on her, the engine makes a little more noise and the idle is not quite as smooth as it was when new.

But the engine is still smooth and powerful.

The Ford 3.5 L engine was supposed to be a copy of the VQ engine (from a source who knows), but Ford cheaped-out on the engine design, and the engine is not the same -- nor near as good as the VQ.

 

"luxsus" ?

 

my car used to idle quiet, but sumtimes it is louder then normal ??

 

Right Loud is one thing but is it smooth just idling in park my 01 was really quiet but kind of a rough idle my 04 much louder but smooth

 

I have to get mine back to nissan. I'm just about out of my powertrain warranty and my motor doesn't idle smoothly at all and my tranny (auto) is shifting poorly to say the least. The 2-3 shift is just plain awful. Last dealership i took it to tried feeding me crap like i need to spend $100 for a throttle body cleaning and some other upsold bullsheit. Its an 04 with 39k miles. Always had oil/tranny changes regularly. Angers me slightly

 

Is your CEL on? I had a rough idle and it turned out to be a bad sparkplug on the back bank...

 

No, never had a CEL before. I got a nasty lifter click too.

 

Every maxima that i've been in from 04-06 you can here the Motor in the cabin ??

 

This is not the case here. The engine in my 04 (with 64 K miles) can not be heard idling if the windows are closed.

When the car was new, you could not hear the engine idling, even with the windows open. It was extremely quite.

 

0 Motor noise wow

 

most cars are like that, it's after they get a couple miles on them that they start to sound normal, mine has 40k and is not dead quiet at idle but I have to look at the tach sometimes to see if it's running.

Next time you go buy a new car, test drive a similiar model off the used car lot, gives you an idea of what to look forward to

 

Ok i didn't no that