stalls at idle

1999 MERCURY COUGAR
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PEGLEGMONKEY
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I have a 1999 mercury cougar with 109,000 miles on it. It is an automatic and every time I come home it smells like burnt rubber. I just had my brake pads replaced so it can't be those.
My main problem is when I try to start it up in the morning the RPMs go way up and then go all the way down to zero and the car dies.
I think that if I manually raise the RPMs that will fix my problem. Can you tell me how to do this on my car?
Nov 28, 2007 at 10:54 PM
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[quote:4be39e36ee="peglegmonkey"]I have a 1999 mercury cougar with 109,000 miles on it. It is an automatic and every time I come home it smells like burnt rubber. I just had my brake pads replaced so it can't be those.
My main problem is when I try to start it up in the morning the RPMs go way up and then go all the way down to zero and the car dies.
I think that if I manually raise the RPMs that will fix my problem. Can you tell me how to do this on my car?[/quote:4be39e36ee]
Make sure you don’t have a frozen caliper or slider on it
I would change the idle air control valve
Check for a vacuum leak
Good luck
Nov 29, 2007 at 7:42 PM