Your engine’s idle is like a human’s heartbeat. With just a few sounds of it you can detect all types of problems in it. Your truck is idling too slowly of too tough? If yes, it is not training alert, you should pay attention to your vehicle. Problems with idle speed like: lumpy idle, slow idle, bad idle of fast idle – are symptoms you should find, diagnose and fix as soon as possible. That’s why Tacoma Truck Repair Center in Tacoma propose you full range of engine services.

The following symptoms you will read about in this article should act as a guide for you to allow you investigate and repair your idling issues.

Symptom #1. Not Smooth Idle with Cold Engine

Your engine stalls during idle when it is cold or it don’t work smoothly. The other way you could see this problem is when you take off your foot from the gas pedal, the engine begin to run very rough and even can stall. When you engine at high speed it works fine.

Possible reasons:

- Your fuel injector is dirty

- EGR valve may be bad

- The idle speed is not set correctly

- The engine may have mechanical damage

Symptom #2. Not Smooth Idle with Warm or Hot Engine

Your engine stalls during idle when it is warm or hot and it don’t work smoothly. The other way you could see this problem is when you take off your foot from the gas pedal, the engine begin to run very rough and even can stall. At high speed engine runs fine.

Possible reasons:

- The engine may have mechanical damage

- Your fuel injector is dirty

Symptom #3. Fast Idling

Engine is idling very fast. After a long time of idling your engine became warm, but idling speed didn’t slow down to normal. You will definitely feel this after you will decide to stop, but you will have to push your brake pedal really hard to stop your truck from moving.

Possible reasons:

- Wrong set of ignition timing

- Some fault in engine computerized system

- Bad idle speed control unit

If your truck suffer any of these problems feel free to visit our workshop or simply call 253-231-5500.