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odd idle after start??
Friday, September 23, 2011 9:48 PM
A couple weeks ago, I changed my upstream o2 sensor and the temp. cooling sensor at the same time. I made sure to disconnect the battery before installing these. After I was done installing these I reconnected the battery and started the car. It started normal but after a few seconds of idling it started bogging by itself, as if a vacuum line was disconnected, then it came back to normal idle and worked fine. Now it does this every time i start the car. I read somewhere here that you cant use any wire to extend the o2 sensor since I have an aftermarket header so i bought an extension kit from casper electronics. Any ideas what could be causing this problem? I've changed the o2 sensor about 3 times, had the fuel system cleaned, and still nothing.




Re: odd idle after start??
Saturday, September 24, 2011 11:52 PM
I'm also interested to hear some solutions to this problem...This exact same thing is happening to me. I replaced the TPS sensor and the IAC sensor and it didn't do anything....my 2.4l sunfire will start fine, then bog down and usually die, but if I start it up a second time or rev it up before it dies, it runs fine...only happens like 50% of the time.
Re: odd idle after start??
Sunday, September 25, 2011 4:08 AM
anything?...if i disconnect my o2 sensor this problem wont happen but of course the car's gas mileage sucks ass without the o2



Re: odd idle after start??
Sunday, September 25, 2011 11:24 AM
I'm having this problem too right now.... any help would be very much appreciated.
Re: odd idle after start??
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:42 PM
so no one has ever solved this problem jbo?



Re: odd idle after start??
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 9:38 AM
Bump, I have the same problem.
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