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Old May 3, 2006 | 06:47 PM
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Recently my idle speed seems to have dropped slightly.

The car seems to drop idle speed when comming to a stop or turning the front wheels slowly (like pulling into a parking space.)

Idle seems to be from 375-400 and then back to 500. Died once on me pulling into a parking space. My mods are listed in sig. I would certainly appriciate if you guys could point me in the right direction.
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Old May 4, 2006 | 06:45 PM
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anyone?
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Old May 4, 2006 | 10:36 PM
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um, do you have a cam?

if not somethings definately not right, my car idles at ~950 all the time
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Old May 4, 2006 | 10:50 PM
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um, do you have a cam?

if not somethings definately not right, my car idles at ~950 all the time
you have a 98. usually 200 rpm higher on tach than actual scan it and see.
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Old May 4, 2006 | 10:52 PM
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anything recent to cause this. do you have a scan tool
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Old May 5, 2006 | 11:26 AM
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No cam, Car is a 2002. I had my new T/C (Vigalante) put in about a month ago and it was fine. It's been like this for a week or so..... No SES light
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Old May 5, 2006 | 11:29 AM
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No cam, car is a 2002. My most recent mod was my Vigalante T/C, which was done about a month ago. (Installed by Speed Inc) It only started acting strange last week. BTW no SES light.....
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Old May 5, 2006 | 11:37 AM
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Get your alternator tested. It may be that
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Old May 5, 2006 | 12:20 PM
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Sorry for the dumb question, but can I go to get the alternator tested?
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Old May 5, 2006 | 12:52 PM
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autozone, advance, pretty much anywhere and its free
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Old May 5, 2006 | 01:11 PM
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thanks again. .....think I'll be on my way to Autozone.
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Old May 5, 2006 | 03:17 PM
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Just got back, car is charging fine even under load. The guy sugested the idle air control motor is going bad..... don't have any more time to check into it today though.
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Old May 5, 2006 | 04:01 PM
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I had exactly the same problem with in gear idle "hunting" sometimes when coming to a stop or at slow speeds, or going from R to D in parking lots, sometimes even dieing, after the same TC install - raising the in gear idle cured it. I never had an SES light either. I think you just need a little tuning.
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Old May 5, 2006 | 04:25 PM
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[/QUOTE]I had exactly the same problem with in gear idle "hunting" sometimes when coming to a stop or at slow speeds, or going from R to D in parking lots, sometimes even dieing, after the same TC install - raising the in gear idle cured it. I never had an SES light either. I think you just need a little tuning.[QUOTE]

I hope I can figure it out soon, it's really negating the fun of driving the car....
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Old May 5, 2006 | 05:32 PM
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Before tuning I got a little paranoid about it possibly stalling sometimes at the wrong time, like when making a left turn across lanes of traffic - when it would start to "hunt" coming to a stop I'd push the selector into Neutral - it'll go to the N/P RPMs which on mine were about 125 RPMs higher.
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The T/A was tuned a month or so ago when the T/C was installed and seemed to be fine. Still can't figure it out.
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