my car dies some times when i am driving.

[kneegrowz32tt]

every single time i get into neutral the rpm gauge goes down to 100 rpm and then comes back to a normal idle. But some times when i am down shifting or going into neutral my car will almost die and all the lights come on, but some times it will just die on me.



can some one help me figure out what is going on? and is it going to be expensive?
thanks very much

[evildky]

IACV, it's a common issue, most likley cleanign will solve the problem

[pahaf]

do u have blow off valves? they casue the car to stall as well.

[Vanessalalinda]

duuuuuuuuuude the same thing is happening to me!! its so frustrating! it usually happens when i go from 5th to neutral and slow down fairly quickly.

What's the IACV?

[evildky]

Idle Air Control Valve, search it, it's a very common problem and seems to effect dang near every one of these cars as they age, usually cleaning and lubing them does the trick

[Vanessalalinda]

I'll look into it and report back.

[DanDrath]

will sea foaming clean the iacv?

[evildky]

will sea foaming clean the iacv?

nope, you have to actually take it apart and clean it, it's an easy fix just nto that easy

[Vanessalalinda]

cleaned out my IACV and i didnt help =/. However, my air flow regulator is stuck open....getting a new one. hope it helps!

[Vanessalalinda]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh its so much worse now!! its dying almost every time i put it in neutral. its soo frustrating! i can hardly let go of the gas pedal. this is after getting a new air flow regulator. so i might need a new IACV????

[evildky]

did you adjust the iacv? get the plugs back on it right?

[Vanessalalinda]

Alex in Trenton is doing the work for me. He's been under that hood a good amount of hours and nothing. he wants to reclean the connectors before getting a new iacv

[Vanessalalinda]

im so freaking annoyed, i just replaced the air flow regulator, got new spark plugs, new idle controller and i'm still stalling when going to neutral form a high gear/speed! wtf?!!??!?!?

[evildky]

maybe you should find a better tech

[Rager]

maybe you should find a better tech

word . thats a ruthless. but prolly true

[evildky]

not trying to be a prick it's just that if she is posting here and he is replacing parts with no sucess then neither fo them truely knows whats going on, if he knew what he was doing she wouldn't be posting here and since she's the one posting and he's doing the work there are too many ways for things to get crossed up and confused

[Vanessalalinda]

well that's tru. if i knew what to do i'd try it myself! ...anyways he's recommended someone else closer to me so let's see what he says.