question about starting my car

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Apr 14, 2004 | 06:25 PM

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REbornHONDAneer

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From: Kennesaw, GA

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Originally Posted by MrFatbooty

I repeat: this is not normal behavior for the car.

Your motor has a system that is designed to raise the idle in cold weather by a total of about 300 rpm. If your idle goes all the way up to 2000 rpm when cold, then you most likely have a bad fast idle thermo valve. You should check the valve using the procedure I posted above.

This thread has helped alot. Another reason to use the "search" function. I am also having problems with my civic. It goes up to 2k rpm when heating up. Then about a minute after starting it'll start fluctuating from 1k to 2k constantly for about another minute or two.

Would you also recommend testing the fast idle thermo valve or the EACV? (you say AICV, the Helms manual refers to it as EACV. Is that correct?)

I also read about cleaning these things. I can dive into that this weekend.

Dave