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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 01:58 PM
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my bro has a 96 accord lx auto and has a check engine light that I dont kno the code to but the car will randomly idle very rough almost like Its gonna stall but rpms r a normal 800 and car shakes really bad when u step on the gas and has little acceleration and then the car runs perfectly fine after about 2000 rpm. I donno wats going on. If u need more details jus ask me cause I donno wat else u guys need. Please help quickly.
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 02:10 PM
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you're going to get a lot of different responses. take the car somewhere and have the code read, many parts stores do it for free. this will save all of the guess work.
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 03:22 PM
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Go to Autozone and have them pull the code.
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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 10:33 AM
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Is the car running Lean, Rich? Is cable tension on accelerator that run to throttle body ok ? and also Advanced Auto parts does code check i wrk there! Boo auto zone lol.
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 03:31 AM
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fixed it!
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 07:08 PM
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Hey what was it?
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