2002 2.4l 4cyl LOW IDLE .... Please help me!

by **VidGameKing** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:09 pm

My 2002 LE has just over 85K (thats 85,066 miles)

by **solara90** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:01 pm

i have 99, 100k

by **lilm** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:14 pm

if its not making your car buck or shake......whats the problem?

by **VidGameKing** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:01 pm

lilm wrote:if its not making your car buck or shake......whats the problem?

Because it's anoying, and it makes my car rattle when I'm at stop lights with my A/C on. I have to throw the car into nuetral just to make it smooth itself out.

At 800 to 1000 RPM the engine would run at it's smoothes, that's where I want it to be. How do I make it go there?

by **lilm** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:27 am

ahh i must have missed the part where you said it was giving you a problem.
hmmmm.......

by **Pogs** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:31 am

jzwu wrote:Yes, the idle drops a little.

When I did the throttle body cleaning at dealer, they told me the idle was too low and they adjusted it.

Can you get the dealer to adjust it? I dont know how they would go about doing it. Also would a throttle body spacer help with this problem?

by **VidGameKing** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:28 pm

What, exactly would the dealer do? Whatever that is, I want to do it myself so I don't have to pay some dealer huge amounts of money, for what could potentially be a small amount of work.

My local dealer want to charge $129.99 an hour for diag... Freaking Fremont Toyota...

by **VidGameKing** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:39 am

Nothing?

by **gnegroni** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:35 am

VidGameKing wrote:Nothing?

Definitely not Freaking Fremont Toyota...but nothing new. I guess our best bet is to attack those rattles.

BTW, my 2005 SE has nearly 80k miles.

by **wkbrdr91** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:46 am

other dealerships will work on your car. I RARELY take my car to Toyota... I dont trust them at all, the GMC dealer does all the work on my Yukon and Solara's, Delorean, and CTS. My other cars havent had to visit the shop yet.

by **toytim** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:10 pm

I hear ya man! Our 2000 convertible has about 90,000 miles and it does the exact same thing as yours and I agree it is very annoying! Our Solara has even stalled a few times at a light and so we do the same as you and put it in neutral. I have cleaned the intake/throttle body, new plugs, new filter and I've even run some STP injector cleaner through it a few times but it seems like nothing has changed at all. I had a '95 Camry with the same problem too so if there are any ideas out there please help. :think:

Tim

by **gnegroni** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:56 am

Just thinking out of the blue...what if we performed the "grounding" mod on our cars. People who have performed that mod in this forum report better idling.

While its not a fix for the unknown cause of our low idling, it might make it less irritating.

Just wanted to share my thought.

by **5sfe** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:51 pm

IACV... their leave me alone, lol....its 90% the problem for every car that idles low, thats my experince with solara's

2002 2.4l 4cyl LOW IDLE .... Please help me!

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