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Rough Idle On Cold Start 2002 Accord V6, Need Suggestions

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Old Dec 27, 2012 | 01:16 PM
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Default Rough Idle On Cold Start 2002 Accord V6, Need Suggestions

Like the title says.. My wife's Accord started this morning but was running really rough. It was 2F degrees this morning in Wisconsin, coldest start for the car this year. I was not there when this happened, but by the sound of things, it seems like the car was flooding. It took about 2 minutes for it to work itself out. It never killed but sounded like it wanted to.

The car has 164K on the odometer. Just curious what you guys would suggest I do next. I have a couple ideas. I'm going to run some injector cleaner through, although I don't think that will help the problem being it surfaced when it was extremely cold outside. I'm not sure when the spark plugs were replaced last, probably difficult to do on a V6..

Do you guys have any suggestions that I'm not thinking of?

The car ran perfectly fine before this happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Old Dec 30, 2012 | 07:57 AM
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Default Re: Rough Idle On Cold Start 2002 Accord V6, Need Suggestions

Chances are its just the cold temperatures causing your car to take a bit longer to get up to proper working temp.

But do some cleaning(air filter, throttlebody, IACV) first before you replace any parts.
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