Q: My turbo diesel Triton, btwn 70kms and 80kms starts kicking. At idle sounds and feels like its going to stall.
I have just bought a turbo diesel Triton second hand from a car dealership about a month ago. When I get to 70/80kms, it will start to give a few kicks, this only stops if i give it a little accelleration, feels like its trying to get into a gear?
Also at idle (at start up and even after a warm engine, when stopped in traffic etc) the revs drop to 800 and it keeps trying to rev and rocking the engine sounding like it wants to stall.
Does this sound like a computer electrical problem or mechanical, any ideas what may cause it to do this?
My car has 189000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission. with a 4x4 gear shift function.
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