Lord Stanley
Hard-core CEG'er
Here is how my car ('95 Zetec MTX) used to act before I started encountering problems... When ever you would but the car in neutral, whether while cruising down the road or coming to a stop, the idle would drop to arouns 1250RPM... It would stay there until a couple seconds after the car stoped and then it would drop to 800RPM, idle speed...
Well, a couple weeks ago something started acting up... From my other thread you know that my VSS shorts out whenever it is raining... Well, the second time that happened to me (out of three times) it would just not stop the wacky readings... It was driving me mad, so I let the car idle allowing the fan to come on like four times... This was finally enough heat to dry up the short in the VSS... During that time though, the car "choked" maybe once a minute... The choke was sudden, and when it happend the RPMS dropped to about 500 and then bounced back up... This is the only time I have experienced a screwed up idle...
Now the problem comes in the area that my first paragraph is about... Whenever I put the car in neutral and let off the gas the RPMS will drop straight down to idle speed, 800RPMS, and stay there... Sometimes though they will go down to 700, even rarer (a couple of times) down to 500, and even rarer (only one time) stall the car... If the RPMS do drop below idle speed while I am stopping the car in neutral, they bouce back up to 800RPMS as soon as the car has stopped...
The one time it stalled was today, hence this post... I was nearing the end of a highway off-ramp in second gear, when I popped it into neutral to complete my stop, the RPMS went straight to zero, just like I had turned the key to "off"...
Hopefully this is enough info to solve this... I have thoughts about what it could be, but I would like an answer from the experts based on my circumstances... Driving around at "0MPH" would not have screwed anything up (PCM wise), or could it have? :help:
Well, a couple weeks ago something started acting up... From my other thread you know that my VSS shorts out whenever it is raining... Well, the second time that happened to me (out of three times) it would just not stop the wacky readings... It was driving me mad, so I let the car idle allowing the fan to come on like four times... This was finally enough heat to dry up the short in the VSS... During that time though, the car "choked" maybe once a minute... The choke was sudden, and when it happend the RPMS dropped to about 500 and then bounced back up... This is the only time I have experienced a screwed up idle...
Now the problem comes in the area that my first paragraph is about... Whenever I put the car in neutral and let off the gas the RPMS will drop straight down to idle speed, 800RPMS, and stay there... Sometimes though they will go down to 700, even rarer (a couple of times) down to 500, and even rarer (only one time) stall the car... If the RPMS do drop below idle speed while I am stopping the car in neutral, they bouce back up to 800RPMS as soon as the car has stopped...
The one time it stalled was today, hence this post... I was nearing the end of a highway off-ramp in second gear, when I popped it into neutral to complete my stop, the RPMS went straight to zero, just like I had turned the key to "off"...
Hopefully this is enough info to solve this... I have thoughts about what it could be, but I would like an answer from the experts based on my circumstances... Driving around at "0MPH" would not have screwed anything up (PCM wise), or could it have? :help:
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