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Old 08-13-2002, 07:36 PM
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Unhappy Won't idle after start...!!??

I'm starting to get the feeling to sell my SVX. I really don't want to, I like the car's appeal so much, but it keeps having this problem. Just today the car had the problem again. The problem is that when I start the car, it won't hold at idle... it just shuts back off. I had this same problem 3 weeks and $500 ago when I was driving it. But at that time I was actually moving and the car just shut off on me. So I had it dropped off at Subaru and they diagnosed it as some kind of Fuel electrical connection by the fuel filter.... so they put a new connection and filter in...oh and also I got a free fuel pump (Put long story short they mis-diagnosed the problem at first and put in a new fuel pump but that didn't fix the problem). So after I picked it up it ran beautifully....well for 3 weeks...and now I'm in Orlando going to UCF and the problem now happens again when I go to start it. The engine turns over and sounds like it's going to start fine...but then it just won't hold the idle and shuts off. So now I'm in Orlando, with my car being towed back to Jacksonville, and I have to bum rides. If anyone has had this problem before...please let me know what you know or if you are an expert at this technical stuff, an explaination would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you.
-The car is a 94' has 76,000 miles on it.
-I maintain the car closely.
-This is the only problem I've had with it since I bought a year and a half ago.
-I can't afford (money & time wise) to keep having problems with it..... might be for sale soon.
- If you are on this site looking to buy an SVX e-mail me at Jacuzzi02@aol.com
-The problem will be fixed if I do or do not decide to sell it.
- SvxJoe
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Old 08-14-2002, 01:03 AM
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i had a similar problem and to solve it i brought it to the dealer and they replaced a part that they said compressed the tranny fluid , and they did it for free because i just bought the car...i dont remember what it was called...but when i went to start my car it would start but shut off when i tried to take it out of park, so i had to rev it up in neutral and then slide it down to drive to get going and put it back in neutral at every light.
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