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  • Start date Start date Mar 17, 2010

mazen189

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I'm having some idling issues. Asking for help because i'm at school and barely got here. So im looking for a quick fix to make me home.

issues
while i was driving on the highway, slowing down , pressing the brakes, the cars idle drops and shuts off.
in traffic in stop and go traffic. I needed to give the car some gas to keep it going.
once i parked, the car idled fine for about a min, then the rpm dropped a bit, with some funky bubbling noise out the tailpipes, then finally shut off.

like i said. I'm at school without any tools or my tuner to see if a code is throwing up. My battery / volt meters look fine. But those are the stock ones. so, we all know those are chit.

please help.

Thanks
Maz
 

midnightdriver

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  • Mar 17, 2010
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Idle issues, I would check out to see if your IAC went bad. Unplug it and see if the car runs the same, I think that is what people said to do. If the car continues to run, then its the IAC, if the car dies well from what others have said, check for vacuum leaks.

Wish I could be more help.
 

wmburns

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See Post #8
http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-for...times-cuts-out-changed-iac-no-difference.html
 
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