My car has been acting up lately. Usually in the mornings when i start my car the idle is rough and my car sounds almost like subaru. That lumpy boxer exhaust tone. Usually it goes away when the car is warm but lately its stuck around a lot longer. I also experience quite a bit of power loss when the engine is like that. Then when it starts to warm up, the engine will idle normally but then it will have these brief drops in rpm...it shakes the whole car.
Any ideas of what this could be? Timing? Plugs? I tried fuel injector cleaner...worked for like a week then it went back to its old ways
***UPDATE***
Well i changed the ignition wires and everything is perfect! Thanks again for the advice.
This post has been edited by Davesceli: Apr 1, 2008 - 1:34 AM
whens the last time you did a tune up?
IE:
plugs, wires, cap, rotor?
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clean the throttlebody and idle speed control motor.
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
sounds like a bad plug wire but a full tune-up wouldnt hurt
This post has been edited by LewFX: Mar 8, 2008 - 12:22 PM
any idea what the cost of parts for a tune up would be...a lil short on cash at the moment
Plug leads, rotor arm, dizzy cap and clean the throttlebody and idle speed control motor.
If the parts sound weird, I'm a Brit
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any idea what the cost of parts for a tune up would be...a lil short on cash at the moment
all the parts i mentioned will run you ~100 or less.
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Sweet!! Thanks for the info everybody.
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Plug leads, rotor arm, dizzy cap and clean the throttlebody and idle speed control motor.
If the parts sound weird, I'm a Brit
a "dizzy" cap?
lol, WTF is that? hahahah~
How did it get that name?
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dizzy=distributor
dizzy cap=distributor cap
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
Before you do your tuneup [still do it, but this will foul the plugs, so don't waste new plugs] run a can or two of Seafoam through the engine.
IMO don't waste it on the fuel tank or oil, run the whole thing through the intake.
