Originally posted by mazdaman:


When the car starts, it runs good for about a minute, then the idle jumps up and then almost stalls out. It does this a couple of times until it finally does stall. The car runs fine if you drive, but when you stop and put it in N or P, then it does the funky idle.



My car does the exact same thing. The last thing that was done before it started was the timing belt was replaced. I've been searching for a solution for 2 years now and have not come up with anything. Like you said, it runs great, just idles funny. I've been over every vaccum line about a hundred times now and still haven't found anything. The only thing I've been able to come up with is maybe the timing belt is off a bit, but haven't yet torn into it. Hope you find a solution, maybe it'll help me too!

Jonathan '96 Contour Zetec MTX 208,XXX miles