Let's say I'm getting off the freeway, I press the clutch, shift out of 5th to neutral. At that moment my Civic DX would usually drop to about 1000 rpm at idle. For the past month it drops too low, somewhere between 200 to 400. It drops and the car feels like it's about to turn off but jumps back up to 600 rpm at idle. There's been a handful of times where it fully shuts off even while the car is moving. When the car is cold it works great with no problems, idle is at 1000 rpm. After driving 10 minutes and the car is at normal temp, the problem starts occurring, idle then drops to 600 rpm. My car is stock other than CAI and exhaust. Manual transmission. I've tried fuel injector cleaner, changed my spark plugs, cleaned my K&N air filter.
asked Dec 30, 2015 at 21:27
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Try cleaning your throttle body. Also check your idle air control valve, perhaps it needs a cleaning as well. If your car is otherwise stock (tune-wise, etc.), those would be my guesses. If it's running fine otherwise, I wouldn't suspect any sort of vacuum leak, but I suppose a minor leak could be possible.– ShamtamDec 30, 2015 at 21:40
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1Was your cold idle 1000 RPM before the issue started? Cold idle is usually closer to 1500 RPM.– rpmerfDec 30, 2015 at 21:51
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Just double checked, cold start idle is 1500 for about 5 seconds then drops to 1100for 10 sec now at 1000 until it heats up. Not exactly sure if that's how it was before– Ronaldho colindresDec 30, 2015 at 22:01
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Ok. That does sound like the IACV is controlling the idle.– rpmerfDec 31, 2015 at 11:18
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Cleaned throttle body, and IACV, had some gunk but nothing too bad. The car continues with the same problem.– Ronaldho colindresDec 31, 2015 at 20:57
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3 Answers
When the throttle body becomes a little worn, it is possible for the butterfly valve to close too much for a steady idle engine speed. The ECM then tries to compensate by opening the IAC more than it is designed to under normal conditions. This can cause stalling and unsteady idle. There will be a screw on the throttle body that allows adjustment of minimum throttle. Try adjusting the screw to open the butterfly valve a little.
answered Dec 31, 2015 at 22:36
You may already have looked at this since it sounds like you've been under the hood quite a bit, but take a good look at your air intake hose too to make sure it's not cracked/leaking. I had a very similar problem on my 02 Protege a while back and that was the cause.
If that looks fine, can you take it to Autozone and have them check for engine trouble codes? If you have a cylinder misfire code it could also be a bad ignition coil or spark plug wire (since you already replaced the plugs and it didn't go away).
Clogged pcv valve. Located under throttle body. had the same issue and changed it, ran fine after that.
