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Blix666
12-20-2010, 12:34 PM
The wife's 2005 Outback 5spd is surging from idle to about 2000 rpms roughly every 3 seconds so it's making her commute to work very annoying in 1st gear anyways. Anybody have any thoughts/suggestions on what this might be? I won't get eyes/hands on the car until tomorrow afternoon so I'm just trying to wrap my head around this.

Also, I just did an oil change yesterday morning, although I can't see how this would affect anything, I always look back at the last service rendered to come up with possibilities.

Fairtax4me
01-03-2011, 08:03 PM
If you haven't figured this problem out yet, check all the air hoses on the air box. Make sure everything is tight and in place. This could also be caused by a sticky IAC valve. A good cleaning should straighten that up. Get a new seal for it from the local Soob dealer. It won't re-use very well.