when the car is running you can hear the clutch kick on and the idle will kick down! My car was just sitting at taco bell and some stranger says. " you know why your car idles like that? I said not really, and he told me it was a low charge on the air conditioning, he also said all I need is to get it recharged. Is this true???????

 

That stranger @ taco bell was exactly right, considering you don't have any other problems w/ idle. What happens is the ac compressor has a pressure switch that kicks it on & off. If the freon pressue gets too low the compressor will turn of to keep itself from burning up. When you reach a point where the pressure is too low the compressor will cycle and thus cause a horrible idle jumping from 1k to 200 repeatedly.

 

jf4828,

Will the car idle funny when the AC is not on?

 

No, this will only happen when the ac is on.... I guess that is an important distinction