Thread: Car starts and then just barely idles

could be as simple as a dirty throttle body.


how many miles? if near or past 100,000 its due for a tune up.

check the ground cables too, (on the bell housing bolt rad side of engine) theres a few extra grounds there other then the neg battery cable, one of them maybe falling off its eyelet.

the abs lights has nothing to do with how its running.

Thanks for the quick reply. The car has 192,000 miles. I read about grounds being a problem, so we already took the negative battery cable loose from the body and cleaned and reattached it. I'll check the ones that you mentioned.