When I hold a steady speed sometimes for no reason at all my rpms will drop 3-400. Then when braking and sitting at a light the car will drop rpms to 1-150. It has only actually died twice. There is no pattern. Sometimes it happens when the car is cold sometimes when it's hot sometimes not at all. Any ideas?
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Is your air conditioner compressor and/or electric aux fan turning on and off? Both can put a drag on the engine.
Idle control valve would be my other guess but other guys will want to chime in on that.101
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