Q: Rough idle

asked by on July 31, 2016

My car was running fine, came home from work and parked it. The next day it was idling rough. Wiggled the map sensor connector and it would idle fine. Did that for 2 days then replaced the connector. Still giving the same issue so I just replaced the map sensor itself and now it seems worse. Idles rough enough now that it kills the car. What do I do next?
My car has an automatic transmission.

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