On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:17:28 -0500, "Steve W."
wrote:

The check engine light does not come on. It did come on one time after heavy
acceleration at freeway speed to get out of a jam. It stayed on for about 20 seconds and then went
off. It hasn't come on since, although the low idle miss has gotten a little worse.
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I had the same problem on another make vehicle. Turned out to be
the exhaust gas recirculation valve. This will continue to get
worse as the valve continues to leak more and/or "carbons up" and
get stickier. Could also be an O2 sensor. Expensive to start
replacing parts though.

Try a couple of cans of fuel injector cleaner in 20 gallons of
gas first before going for the big bucks.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).