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After letting the car sit over night, I go and start it, it starts right away, but boggs down just as quick!!! Real low idle for about a minute, almost stalling. Then goes back up to a normal idle. I've got the fuel system cleaned, filters changed. Any ideas???? This only happens on start-up from letting it sit over night. I even thought it was a charging issue, and found a near dead battery, still have the same problems. If I remember tomorrow I will take a vid with sound to show exactly what I am looking at...
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measure the voltage on the battery. If it gives you 10-11v, chances are you need a new battery
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is there any other issues with it idling strange.
i know there is a reflash that the dealers do to fix the cold start issues with the SVTF
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i would check which reflash you have. i had the same problem before i got my cpu reflashed. i think the new flash is yrfo, but i'm not sure if it will work on your year.
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There's a fairly recent thread on FJ about this problem ... I didn't read the whole thing so I don't know if they actually solve the problem ...
FJ thread on SVT cold idle problem
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Well the battery was bad, and so I got a new one. As for the reflash, the car already has a tune on it. I'm gonna check the plugs, and see if they have anything to do with it. Oh ya BTW, started this morining, nothing, no issues!!! figures....
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Good move samething with my car after I screwed my alternator aparently running your car solely off of your yelloe top battery for 2 weeks will kill it lol.
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laidman,Oct 14 2008, 08:25 AM Wrote:Well the battery was bad, and so I got a new one. As for the reflash, the car already has a tune on it. I'm gonna check the plugs, and see if they have anything to do with it. Oh ya BTW, started this morining, nothing, no issues!!! figures....
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Side note
Car looks awesome man, that was me last friday on lauzon.
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OK now car still has issues!!! NEW Battery, Spark Plugs aswell. I'm gonna start it up this morning to see if it will do it again.
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