1994 1.6 5 speed mx3 idling problems
Posted: March 9th, 2009, 3:22 pm
ok so you start the car up, it runs fine, drives fine. For a while I noticed that every once and a while when you take it out of gear and stop at a light, the idle goes way down for a few seconds, and comes back up. It was ok for the longest time this way.
Recently, given the same situation, the car drives fine while cold, when it warms up it starts having idleling problems, the idle drops very low and sputters, at this time the CEL comes on briefly, the engine runs like this for a period of 10-15 seconds then the CEL goes off and the car runs ok again. Some days it will not do it at all, others it stalls on every street corner when you stop, rough idles until it chokes and dies.
I thought wiring, or something ignition wise. Is this possible, or should I be looking at something else? The distrubutor cap should be changed, but its not finished. Any ideas, thanks everyone.
Recently, given the same situation, the car drives fine while cold, when it warms up it starts having idleling problems, the idle drops very low and sputters, at this time the CEL comes on briefly, the engine runs like this for a period of 10-15 seconds then the CEL goes off and the car runs ok again. Some days it will not do it at all, others it stalls on every street corner when you stop, rough idles until it chokes and dies.
I thought wiring, or something ignition wise. Is this possible, or should I be looking at something else? The distrubutor cap should be changed, but its not finished. Any ideas, thanks everyone.