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    Exclamation Car shaking at low idle and shuts off

    Starting yesterday when I would start my car it would take longer to start when I turned the ignition key and when it did start the engine would shake and the RPMs would get low then the car would shut off almost like its stalling. I can turn it on again and keep it on but the revs bounce back and forth betweem 500-1000 and the engine still shakes. Also when it drives, whatever gear I am in, when its under about 2k revs I have very little power and the acceleration is very choppy. Once i get to higher revs it acts normal and the power comes back. Could it be a bad fuel pump? No codes were thrown.

    Just went to go start it again and now it won't even start.
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    Could be. How's the battery? Also, any smoke?

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    Intake boots in good shape?

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnrando View Post
    Could be. How's the battery? Also, any smoke?

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    Battery is fine, no smoke. I'll go check the intake boots but I am pretty sure its the fuel pump.
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    Check your intake as others have suggested. I had the same issue years ago. Really rough start with bad idle. Giving it a little gas solved it until the next start up. Turns out one of my injectors was leaking pretty bad. Replaced it and the problem was solved. I honestly don't know how to check for that though so maybe the other members can chime in?

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    Have you cleaned the idle control valve recently??


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    Quote Originally Posted by san View Post
    Have you cleaned the idle control valve recently??


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    Good idea.


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    sounds like a vacuum leak

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