After reading some posts, I unplugged my battery for 10 min. to restart my CPU. The reason why I did this, was because when I bought my 89 325i a couple days ago, the idle was too high. It wasn't TOO high, it was at 1k RPM.. but only after the car was warmed up AND in park. when I drive, the idle sits right above 500 RPM. Its only when I put it in park that the idle got high.
Now.. I was doing a lot of research on these problems, and one of the "at home" possible fixes, I guys you can call it, was to unplug the battery for 10 minutes to restart the CPU. Well, this made it 10x worse.
Now that I plugged the battery back in and started the car, the idle is extremely erratic along with my gauges. The very first time I started the car the, the car stalled about 10 sec. after starting.. 'red flag.' after that I tried starting the car again, and i feathered the gas a little so the car wouldnt die. The car really wanted to die and the throttle response was VERY poor! When I would hit the gas, it would take it a couple seconds to register, and even then it was very poor. So it was late at night, and I decided to take it out of the lot, and to get on it a little to see if it could, snap out of it or something. After it warmed up, it did get better, but regardless it was still poor! It's really bizarre, I can't figure it out. It really reminded me of a problem that I had with my old E30 with the intake manifold gasket.. but I don't know how unplugging a battery can all of the sudden destroy the gasket.
I don't know if you guys have any insight on this, but if you do, I would GREATLY appreciate any tips/information! If you need anymore information, just let me know.
Thanks friends!
Now.. I was doing a lot of research on these problems, and one of the "at home" possible fixes, I guys you can call it, was to unplug the battery for 10 minutes to restart the CPU. Well, this made it 10x worse.
Now that I plugged the battery back in and started the car, the idle is extremely erratic along with my gauges. The very first time I started the car the, the car stalled about 10 sec. after starting.. 'red flag.' after that I tried starting the car again, and i feathered the gas a little so the car wouldnt die. The car really wanted to die and the throttle response was VERY poor! When I would hit the gas, it would take it a couple seconds to register, and even then it was very poor. So it was late at night, and I decided to take it out of the lot, and to get on it a little to see if it could, snap out of it or something. After it warmed up, it did get better, but regardless it was still poor! It's really bizarre, I can't figure it out. It really reminded me of a problem that I had with my old E30 with the intake manifold gasket.. but I don't know how unplugging a battery can all of the sudden destroy the gasket.
I don't know if you guys have any insight on this, but if you do, I would GREATLY appreciate any tips/information! If you need anymore information, just let me know.
Thanks friends!
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