98 misses upon cold start

Hugemoose · #1 (**permalink**) 03-14-2007, 12:34 AM

My friend here at school has a 98 Rav4. When she cold starts it, it flutters around 400rpm or so and appears to be missing. Give it a bit of gas and it's fine. If i shut it off again and restart it, it misses again. Once warmed up though it doesn't do this.

I thought it may be the spark plugs but she told me they were recently replaced. A friend said maybe a fuel filter? It does have 73,000 miles on it.

Any thought greatly appreciated. She's a little afraid to drive it to far.

thumbster · #2 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Hugemoose

My friend here at school has a 98 Rav4. When she cold starts it, it flutters around 400rpm or so and appears to be missing. Give it a bit of gas and it's fine. If i shut it off again and restart it, it misses again. Once warmed up though it doesn't do this.

I thought it may be the spark plugs but she told me they were recently replaced. A friend said maybe a fuel filter? It does have 73,000 miles on it.

Any thought greatly appreciated. She's a little afraid to drive it to far.

Check the egr valve, and possibly the TPS - my bet is the egr valve is stuck open and/or the egr solenoid is leaky. I'm assuming she has no CEL?

Hugemoose · #3 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by thumbster

Check the egr valve, and possibly the TPS - my bet is the egr valve is stuck open and/or the egr solenoid is leaky. I'm assuming she has no CEL?

Correct there is no CEL on. I am assuming that the egr valve is on the throttle body. Probably easy to take off too. Maybe I'll try to find a manual to find exactly where it is.

Thank you for the tip. I really appreciate it. I'd rather fix it myself than her pay a ridiculous amount of money taking it to a shop.