My sister borrowed my car, the Toyota Corolla mentioned in the 'Oil Change' thread, and she left me her vehicle. I was driving the Altima around and noticed whenever the car is idle, such at a stop sign/light, it acts as if it wants to die but never has yet. There are no warning lights on the dash that are lit up and the car's maintenance is up-to-date and there is plenty of gas in the tank. However, when the car is idle it feels like it wants to die. Now we have been getting blasted with cold weather here recently (got into single digits last night and this morning) so I figured that might be a problem but the dash indicator does not show the engine is too cold. I'm not trying to fix this myself but I am wondering what could be causing the car to do this. Any ideas?
I the exact same problem with my Civic. It turned out to be something with the AC/heater. Do you have you heater on when it happens? If so, try turning it off next time it starts to die. If it starts running normal, maybe its the AC/heater.
doubtful, if the fluid was low it would not be bogging. Its prolly just a piece with a variety of problems causing the crappy idle.
I was having that issue, but my car would not move when accelerating. It could also be the coolant sensor or the rotor sensor, both play a big part in the idle and gas mixture for the car. But I would check the fluid level first its easiest
No, no warning lights are on. Now I did notice when I put gas in the car a check engine light did come on but I read in the owner's manual that the gas cap could be loose and it said to tighten it and after several trips if the light is not off then take it to the dealer. I tightened it and sure enough, after a couple of trips it went off. Where does MIL come from?
I just thought of something! It may be the spark plugs, my car did that and I remember that it sputtered on the take off, replaced them and problem fixed.
Could be many things. clogged up fuel filter. Maybe a vacuum hose is torn. You might need a tune-up. What you should do is take it to a mechanic shop.
Bingo. Three ingredients to a properly-combusting engine: Fuel, Air, and Spark. A malfunction in any of these systems gives about the same symptom, so you can either use the shotgun method and replace whatever you can find and hope to get it right on the first try...or you can take it in and have it properly diagnosed. But hey, you don't have to have them do the work for you - once they tell you what the problem is you can make the call as to whether or not you want to fix it yourself.
