Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting.

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montreal
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Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting.

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For all members in this and other forums who need to hear the sound made by the MATRIX/COROLLA/VIBE engine while idle hunting during the second minute following a cold start after the car has stood outside in freezing temperatures for at least 6 hours, just click on the attached file at the bottom of this post.Please post any comments in the forum thread that brought you here. In the GENVIBE forum, the original thread is at: http://forums.genvibe.com/zero...age=1

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Post by zionzr2 »

mine has never made that sound!
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Re: Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting. (montreal)

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Neither has either one of mine.
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Oh my! I hate the way these engines twitch and shake like a crackhead at idle, far from a smooth, steady idle... Mine never idles consistently, never has, never will - but it doesn't do that... If it did, the piece of junk would end up throwing a rod. Not normal. Keep up the good fight against the powers that be.
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Re: Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting. (montreal)

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and its not throwing a code? wow I'd drop that off at the dealer and have them start it in the A.M. that isn't right.
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will have to listen to it when I get home. Don't have speakers at work.
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Re: Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting. (montreal)

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Quote, originally posted by montreal »Please post any comments in the forum thread that brought you here. In the GENVIBE forum, the original thread is at: http://forums.genvibe.com/zero...age=1That's what I'll do.
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Re: Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting. (scherry2)

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Quote, originally posted by scherry2 »and its not throwing a code? wow I'd drop that off at the dealer and have them start it in the A.M. that isn't right.This car has been looked at twice by the dealer as have many of the other forum posters with the identical issue.This problem is rooted in something so complex within the engine computer software that it will require the engineers in Japan to solve it. And that I fear will take many years, if ever.
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Re: Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting. (ColonelPanic)

Post by Celtic_Curse »

Not to side rack the forum but Colonel Panic is that 67000 miles on your car in 3 years???
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Re: Audio recording of VIBE/MATRIX/COROLLA engine during cold idle hunting. (montreal)

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My car does not and has not ever done this. If so I would have put a bullet in it! Man, how annoying! I would have to suspect the IAC or injectors...
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