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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 04:46 AM
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Well the temps have droped 10 and 20 degrees daily over night! My car seems to not like this. It will rev correctly and no problems with acceleration but coming to say a stop light the revs will drop almost stalling the car shaking then go little higher shake little higher shake 100 RPM each time till it hits ~800 and the shaking stops. Though sometimes the revs will drop down and then fall off and stall!

It did it to me like 4 times on the way home from work. It only started after the temps started droping like a rock. Is the ECU just flipping out with this MUCH colder air? I pulled the backup fuse last night but again this morning it shook.........didn't stall though.

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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 10:36 AM
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try warming the car up before driving
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 12:27 PM
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This also happened to me a couple months back.

I concluded it was bad gasoline.
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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 10:41 AM
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Pinky althought I live in the South we get extreme drops in temp like you have described. What is worse is that we get cold weather (30's, 40's) with high humidity. My car did the same last year when this happened and I assumed it was the ECU not being able to readjust quickly enough. I did the exact same you did (except I pulled the battery cable... the fuse trick was unknown to me at the time) and it helped the problem.

I found that I had to feather the gas several times untill it warmed up to keep it from stalling.
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