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Old 06-17-2008, 11:05 AM
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Im having a bit of a problem keeping the car at idle. The car drops to around 500 rpm and fluctuates or just dies when Im coming up to a stop light. I was thinking a vacume leak but all of the hoses I know of are ok aswell as the connections. I heard it could be a dirty maf or a leak from the cold air up to the sc. any ideas? A buddy of mine said something like using a little throttle body cleaner and that may do it since there are sensors in or close to the tb. Im running a KB supercharger. It also throws a CEL every once in a blue moon. It started two weeks ago when I went to DC from del.
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Old 06-17-2008, 12:18 PM
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Old 06-17-2008, 08:32 PM
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it said no info available. I believe I found the source. The air filter fell off. I found it nestled up in the bumper I cleaned it up and put it back on and no problem so far. the car has a good idle and does not die when I pull up to a stop light. The rpm drops to 500 and goes right back to 960 (what I have it set at). so hopefully that solved it
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:24 PM
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Ya that happened to me about 3 months ago and my cold air intake was loose and once i fixed that I re installed my tune and it straightened right out.
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Old 06-19-2008, 07:59 PM
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Back in the old days, if you sprayed carb cleaner around vacuum hoses or the manifold, but kept it away from the airfilter, a slight up tick in rpm would indicate a vac leak. It will do the same on fuel injected car.
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Old 06-20-2008, 11:11 AM
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Pull negative battery cable.
Wait 30 minutes.
Reconnect the negative battery cable.
Drive around followingthe adaptive learning procedure guidelines.
The PCM has adapted to DC and need to be re-adapted to DEL.
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