Anyone ever had this problem? I figured less load on the engine would be better than the engine feeling like it was getting bogged down. Had the vacuum system checked and everything was good. No leaks.

If you turn it on it jumps back up to 950, 975.

-Stephen

 

Next time I drive, I'll pay more attention, but I'm pretty sure my 1.8T idles somewhere between 800 and 900 rpm, as do most cars I've driven (some are as low as 750, even). Given that, I'm somewhat confused as to why you seem to think idling at 900 is too low. Is this a change from the car's previous behavior, and if so, have you had any recent service or changed anything about the car?

 

i think my jeep idles at like 500.... lol

 

My car has thrown an engine light and when I do a cold start up it barely makes it to 800 rpm when it's supposed to idle at around 1200 rpm from a cold start. Any ideas on what this might be?

 

OP, what rpm's do you want it to run at? 900 is ok.

 

OP, as I stated that I would earlier in the thread, I paid more attention last time I drove, and my A4 1.8T idles at a rock steady 800 RPM. 900 sounds a little bit high, if anything, but realistically ought to be fine...

 

Warning, pure speculation here: maybe a bad temperature sensor? I'd think that *could* cause the warmup high idle thing to not happen and cause it to throw a code. Of course, if you take it somewhere to have the codes read, you'd be able to get a more useful response.

 

True but at the same time I believe that it's the turbo. I'm pretty sure it's dead cause it starting making a really weird whine ight before the engine light came on. I'm scared to drive it anywhere cause I don't want to possibly further damage whatever wrong with it... :/

 

Well, then perhaps you should either risk driving it to the nearest place you can get the codes read or try to find someone local to you who'd be willing to lend you a VAG-COM or a generic OBD2 code reader. Regardless, letting the car sit around and *not* reading the codes isn't going to get it fixed...

 

Ya I'm just Savin up my money to get it fixed