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Rough Idling '91 Spider
R. Strause writes:
>Question for you all re: my '91 Spider. It runs great. It does
>something annoying though in that it surges at idle. When cold, it
>idles relatively smoothly at 1k. Once warm though it falls from 1k
>to 500 and oscillates back and forth. Never stalls, but threatens to
>now and then. Its annoying as heck, especially when stopped at a
>light and other drivers look at you as if your cars falling apart.
>Mechanic says its normal for a fuel injected Spider, but I don't
>believe it.
As the owner of two '91 Spiders I can definately tell you that this is
not normal. Both of my cars purr away at 770-800 rpm at idle and never
miss a beat. I'd have the car checked out by another mechanic. You may
have a vacuum leak somewhere.
Kevin Fillip
Dallas, TX
'91 Spider Veloce
'91 Spider
'91 164
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