'02 2.2L Low Idle Speed

Imitation · 02-12-2012, 04:44 AM

So this just happened tonight...the car randomly now idles at 400-500 RPM and the inside lights dim and engine sounds like it died when I either put the clutch in or put the tranny in neutral. In fact, the engine completely died at one point. At stops I manually kept it above 1000 during my cruise. Also, I finally parked it, pulled the e-brake and bam, the idle speed shot back up to 1000 RPMs.

For the seven months I've owned the car, it's always idled at 1000 RPMs.
I have a manual/5-speed.
Fuel pump was recently replaced after it decided to go... :/

colonel6632 · 02-12-2012, 09:58 AM

maybe you aic? air idle control. its on the throttle body, try either pulling it off and cleaning it with seafoam or replace it

Papa Rad17 · 02-12-2012, 12:36 PM

The ac kills mine at idle. Depending on weather iv noticed sometimes it would idle a little low exspecially when its hot but I haven't had any trouble this winter. Unfortunatly the idle speed cant be adjusted w/o up tuners. But when I first got the the car it always idled rough, after I put on the intake it helped it a bunch. I also have the auto trans so idk if that would cause any significance in your issue

03glgold · 02-12-2012, 03:13 PM

mine does the same thing but I have only ever had it die after it got ran hard

Imitation · 02-13-2012, 04:01 PM

After having it remainder of Sunday & today - it is no longer running low. However if it does it again I'll look into it ASAP, but plans now are to wait until it is a little warmer outside. :P

TheEdgeofSanity · 02-13-2012, 04:09 PM

i wonder if your throttle position sensor is messed up?