Q: Idles and stalls again.

asked by on January 15, 2017

Hi there. I'm having an issue where my car's idle after rev drops down low (sometimes stalls), then goes up just past normal idle, then continues to waver until it eventually reaches a normal idle. I'm wondering what this could be. The car is also running pretty rich if that helps at all.

My car has 128000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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