AWD stalling at idle

[leadfoot6]

Hi guys, after a bit more investigation I have figured that the problem is one of a slow idle.

The car seems to now stall continuously when the air conditioner is on (and the idle drops as a result). Also, it doesn't seem to stall when in park or neutral (i.e. when the revs are a little higher), only in drive or reverse. A bit like the old school cars when you had the lights, wipers and heater/air-con going all at once.....the revs dropped quite a bit.

I took the car to Mistsubishi a while ago and they said they adjusted the idle, but I don't know what they did exactly....

So how do I increase the idle, do I use the screw (not sure where this is as yet), or just reset the ECU?? I am seeing another mechanic on Monday so hopefully he has some idea.

Cheers

Dont touch the screw, the TCU will automatically adjust any tweaking you do and back it again.....

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Follow this thread:

https://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/sh...=107439&page=1


from start to finish.....it's only 3 pages, which demonstrates that adjusting the idle screw provides the desired result where idle was too high.

I don't see why it would not work with a low idle.....provided that an incorrect idle setting is the cause of your problem.

For a long while I thought that an incorrect idle setting might have been my problem of stalling as we have discussed, but ultimately it turned out to be a failing AFM(air flow meter).

I never made a single attempt to change my idle setting in any way.....just thought about it and read every thread related to it.

Only the AFM change cured the problem.

Here is a link to an image showing the idle screw at the top of the throttle body:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=m...JV0HKcLzRjzmM: