Ford problems

WOODY303

MEMBER
2003 FORD TAURUS
6 CYL
FWD
AUTOMATIC
90,000 MILES

I have a 2003 ford taurus lx wit 90k miles on it and the
Problem is that it would die every once in awhile and now
Its like every day and I just got a cd player in it six months
Ago and got the cam sincer replaced fluids are good and jusst got new breaks on it to I took it three different shops
And they cant get it to die at stops like I told them but it dies
For me every mornning when I get off work but you can
Can start it up after it dies lol I notice the other day when
You turn on the ac or defroce while in park it almost kills the car the rpm jumps to one then it jumps to a half it keeps on
Doing that so I dont know if that is because it has bad
Wires from the cd player or bad wires from other place in the car but again I dont know if im getting lied to since im a frivetime customer and I think drivetime might be telling these shops to lie or not to do anything with the car since im a drivetime customer but again they said the car is good
But why would they car die at stops then

2 Replies

WRENCHTECH

MECHANIC
20,758 POSTS

First eliminate all vacuum or air leaks in the system. You may have a bad IAC ( idle air control) but try cleaning the throttle body first. Remove the intake snorkel, have someone hold the throttle wide open for you and scrub the back side of the throttle plate and surrounding bore with an old tooth brush and some carb cleaner. Be sure to spray some into the small holes next to the throttle plate. That should help stabilize the idle. If it still has a problem, replace the IAC.