xantblazex
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- Sep 17, 2004
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Flushing,
New_York
Hi guys. I am in desperate need of help. I have a 96 GS with about 101k miles on it. The car runs perfect except for one thing.
Sometimes when I start the car, the RPMs boost to 1500 and slowly go down and hold steadily at 1000 when I idle or hit clutch. Car drives good during this !! Here is when it goes bad. Sometimes when I start the car, the RPMs boost anywhere from 800 to like 1200 without much strength. Basically it immediately drops and looks like the idle is struggling hovering from 600 to 1000. Then as soon as I drive the car, the idle will not hold as soon as i come to a stop and put my foot on the clutch. The idle dies, and stalls out the car unless i start pumping the gas on neutral to keep the idle up. This causes a major headache as it takes about 5 minutes of driving before the idle stabilizes itself again.
THIS IS REALLY BAD BECAUSE IT IS PUTTING A STRAIN ON MY ENGINE AND STARTER.
I really need advise guys
I have take the car and got a tune up hoping it would solve the problem. But it didn't. But mind you, i am not impressed with those mechanics either! I complained after the tune up that the problem was still persisting, and all they did was adjust the idle higher, which isn't solving the problem because like i said, sometimes it starts high sometime is starts struggling. It is an on and off thing.
Any ideas what it could be?? The problem did start around October NYC, so maybe its the cold start sensor or something. But then again, sometimes the car starts perfectly in the cold and maintains, sometimes it starts and it strugglers when its midly cold.
GUYS PLEASE HELP!! A FELLOW DSMER
Sometimes when I start the car, the RPMs boost to 1500 and slowly go down and hold steadily at 1000 when I idle or hit clutch. Car drives good during this !! Here is when it goes bad. Sometimes when I start the car, the RPMs boost anywhere from 800 to like 1200 without much strength. Basically it immediately drops and looks like the idle is struggling hovering from 600 to 1000. Then as soon as I drive the car, the idle will not hold as soon as i come to a stop and put my foot on the clutch. The idle dies, and stalls out the car unless i start pumping the gas on neutral to keep the idle up. This causes a major headache as it takes about 5 minutes of driving before the idle stabilizes itself again.
THIS IS REALLY BAD BECAUSE IT IS PUTTING A STRAIN ON MY ENGINE AND STARTER.
I really need advise guys
I have take the car and got a tune up hoping it would solve the problem. But it didn't. But mind you, i am not impressed with those mechanics either! I complained after the tune up that the problem was still persisting, and all they did was adjust the idle higher, which isn't solving the problem because like i said, sometimes it starts high sometime is starts struggling. It is an on and off thing.Any ideas what it could be?? The problem did start around October NYC, so maybe its the cold start sensor or something. But then again, sometimes the car starts perfectly in the cold and maintains, sometimes it starts and it strugglers when its midly cold.
GUYS PLEASE HELP!! A FELLOW DSMER
