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2005 Tacoma cold engine idle speed?

Don't have a shop manual yet, but my new 2005 Tacoma with 4 cylinder engine and automatic transmission seems to have a terribly high idle speed at first start on a cold morning. About 2200 rpm for one or two seconds, then 2000 rpm for one or two more minutes. Kind of scary, I think. Now, by cold, I don't mean cold, cold, but say maybe 45 to 55 F. I know from lots of past experience that cold start ldle on most gas engines can and should be higher than hot idle, but I would think 1000 rpm for a minute or so would be plenty high. What do you guys think? Lynn

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Lynn Coffelt
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It's normal, I think there's something about it in the owners manual

Paulie

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Paulie

It may be by design but there's nothing "Normal" about the looks I get from others in the parking lot when Fire up my 2005. " No, really, I don't have the pedal floored !' I Hate it! but darn little else about this 2.7.

Kevin T

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kgt

LOTS of 2005 cars do this, as does my neighbor's 2004 Ram. Just wait until the people with the looks get their next new car.

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B a r r y

The 2002 Tacoma does it, too. Based on other complaints I've seen here, the

03 & 04s are the same way. And, the automatic tranny doesn't get un-arthritic for about 2 miles when it's really cold out. Won't shift up from 2nd or 3rd. Drive gently.
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Doug Kanter

| > LOTS of 2005 cars do this, as does my neighbor's 2004 Ram. Just wait | > until the people with the looks get their next new car. | | The 2002 Tacoma does it, too. Based on other complaints I've seen here, the | 03 & 04s are the same way. And, the automatic tranny doesn't get | un-arthritic for about 2 miles when it's really cold out. Won't shift up | from 2nd or 3rd. Drive gently. | |

'99 V-6 does it too. I shift the auto tranny into gear right after starting the engine. It lowers the rpm some. Glad somebody else noticed the slow to shift tranny.

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Jarhead

It sounds about right to me.

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Jeff Strickland

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