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    Accord surging/pulsing rhythmic idle before warmed up

    I'm in Southern California. Even in the morning around 6:30am it is only about 40 or 45 degrees at the lowest. You're right that it is normal to idle higher when cold, but if normal idle is 700 or so with this car, then a higher idle at 1200 or so seems too high. Also, there is the issue of the...
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    Accord surging/pulsing rhythmic idle before warmed up

    Unfortunately some of the idle issues have come back after less than a week of driving after the car seemed to be fixed. It is not doing the crazy pulsing/surging that it was doing before, but it is idling too high while cold. Yesterday it was at least 15 minutes of driving before the idle went...
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    Accord surging/pulsing rhythmic idle before warmed up

    Sorry for forgetting to give the vehicle info! It is a 2001 Honda Accord w/ a 4cyl 2.3L ULEV V-TEC engine. Everything is stock. The problems started about 3 weeks ago, but it was not after any repairs or maintenance. UPDATE: last night I checked for vacuum leaks (smoke test) one more time and...
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    Accord surging/pulsing rhythmic idle before warmed up

    I've been working on fixing my Honda's idle issues for a couple weeks now, but no improvements yet. When I start the car cold, the idle is a little high right from the beginning at around 1,500rpm or sometimes a little less, but not terribly high for it being cold. After running for just a few...
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    transmission wont shift

    One thing you could do just to verify if the solenoids are capable of working or not is use a set of jumper wires (test leads, preferrably with an in-line fuse holder) to supply 12volts to each of the solenoids to see if they will "click" on or not. If they do then you will know for sure that...
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