When i start my car cold i get a high idle for a while (proly 5 min) it idles at like 1500(starts at 1500 slowly lowers) but if i put it into anything other than park it drops to a normal 750.

Any suggestions?

Harv

 

is this always?
or did it start recently?
a high initial idle is not too unusual on cars, heck my brothers old cavalier would do 30+ at idle on cold mornings.

 

thats how its supposed to work...it does that on all automatic cars. When the cars is not warm it has a higher idle. When you put it into drive, reverse, etc, it always go down to the normal idle. I guess thats like the drive speed

 

My 5 speed also does the same thing. It is functioning as it should.

 

Normal for maxima's As long as it drop's back down after it warms up.

 

well it has started recently proly a month ago i noticed it maybe its normal and i just never noticed it before.
Thanks for the replys

 

yea...then when the car warms up, the idle in park will be the same as when its in drive.

 

Will probably happen more as the weather gets colder. You will also see "I smell gas in the car when I start it" threads right about now

 

Yeah, that one, and the ones about "my car is warm in city driving, but no heat on the highway..." Maybe we should make a calendar sticky that lists the things to check BEFORE it gets to be -10....

Nice looking Max, BTW Harvs94...