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Old 05-09-2007, 01:30 AM
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weird idleing...then dying ><

hey everbody, i was here a lonnngg time ago and just recently came bak...but been having some weird problems on my 8 lately...only got 13 000 km on it, but when its in neutral either with clutch or not my 8 idles very weird...like the rpm just goes up and down..sometimes it just goes all the way down on red lights and dies....but wen i start it again there's no problem...anybody know wat the problem is? kinda scaring me rite now...wat if it dies in a middle of a turn o.o!!..... wen it first happend im just like wtf....neutral and it died....=.=....it doesn't happen often....but once every couple of days...which still kinda bothers me...
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i'm having the same problem... had it towed today... i'll post what's wrong w/ it when they call me up
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Originally Posted by Rx8-13b
hey everbody, i was here a lonnngg time ago and just recently came bak...but been having some weird problems on my 8 lately...only got 13 000 km on it, but when its in neutral either with clutch or not my 8 idles very weird...like the rpm just goes up and down..sometimes it just goes all the way down on red lights and dies....but wen i start it again there's no problem...anybody know wat the problem is? kinda scaring me rite now...wat if it dies in a middle of a turn o.o!!..... wen it first happend im just like wtf....neutral and it died....=.=....it doesn't happen often....but once every couple of days...which still kinda bothers me...

1 word vacuum....or possible 2...new engine
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Same thing happened to me today. Only problem with mine is that it did not exactly run fine after getting it started again.
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ahh...damn..i dun want a new engine....seems to haf so much hassle and factory problems with the 8...would the intake and the exhaust haf anything to do with it ? =T...
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