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Old Nov 13, 2016 | 11:47 AM
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Surging idle when cold

89 vert autotragic

When I first start the car no matter the temperature outside it always surges from idle to about 1600rpm. It only does this when in neutral/park and goes away when I move the car and when the car warms up it goes away almost completely which I will get to in a second...

When warm and I shut it off to go inside to a store and re start it, it will almost do the same thing for about 15 seconds then goes away as before.

I have tried the following things:

Adjusted TPS as per manual
New plugs and wires
New fuel filter

Any help would be appreciated guys as it's very annoying and disturbs my neighbors.

Edit: now that I thought about it it's more like a build up of RPMs and then just cuts out and drops fast then repeats ...

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Old Nov 13, 2016 | 04:05 PM
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Check the operation of the thermowax.
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Old Nov 16, 2016 | 11:45 PM
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Upon closer inspection these are loafers haha (The Simpsons reference - McBain)

Anyways. I checked the make sure everything was there and I believe it was. I checked to see if the little pin the moves operates normally and it doesn't move from cold or warm. I even tried hot water on the area.
It's touching the lever but not doing anything. The throttle body seems to be working fine as in I pushed the lever by hand and it does as intended. Push one way and it rises, pull the other way it almost stalls.

I also tried looking for the adjustment screw on the accelerated warm up lever but could not see anything from above. I took some photos but still couldn't see it. I wanted to see if I could adjust it away or closer to it to see if it made a difference.




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Old Nov 18, 2016 | 06:27 AM
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I am also having this problem (s5 na) i suspect its the theremowax and when i push in the dashpot it changes nothing so that butterfly stays open
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Old Feb 15, 2024 | 01:48 PM
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re-check the TPS readings (because it hot now) change a new thermostat, clean/scrub 6-pin connector with alcohol. im having the uissue with my turbo s5. hope this helps out
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