FAST IDLE Adjustment. 3,000 RPM's eeekk!

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dm - 10 Feb 2004 07:10 GMT

My GF's 1998 Saturn SW1 needs the fast idle adjusted, when cold, it revs
up to as high as 3,000 RPM'S Way too high. After about 30-45 seconds of
warm up, It slows down to a normal 800 RPM or so.
Are there any specific steps I need to know? if not, where would I find
the adjustment screw?
I want to make sure I do this by the book.
It has 50,000 Miles and the only maintenance I know of is the serpentine
belt change. So IM assuming the plugs and other tune-up items haven't
been changed

Ill be doing a tune up on it in the next few weeks.
Plugs & Wire set
Rotor (assuming it's NOT distributor-less)
Gas filter
Air Filter
Radiator Flush
Transmission/Transaxle flush (Or is this FWD tranny sealed? requiring no
maintenance?)
Any other maint. tips?

sorry, this car is new to me... lol :)
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

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dm - 11 Feb 2004 03:27 GMT

SORRY FOLKS, I POSTED TO WRONG NG
shame on me..

> My GF's 1998 Saturn SW1 needs the fast idle adjusted, when cold, it revs
> up to as high as 3,000 RPM'S Way too high. After about 30-45 seconds of
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> sorry, this car is new to me... lol :)
> Any help is greatly appreciated!!

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JMPhillips - 10 Feb 2009 09:17 GMT

> GUEST wrote
> My GF's 1998 Saturn SW1 needs the fast idle adjusted, when cold, i

revs

> up to as high as 3,000 RPM'S Way too high. After about 30-4

seconds of

> warm up, It slows down to a normal 800 RPM or so
> Are there any specific steps I need to know? if not, where would

find

> the adjustment screw
> I want to make sure I do this by the book.
> It has 50,000 Miles and the only maintenance I know of is th

serpentine

> belt change. So IM assuming the plugs and other tune-up item

haven't

> been change
>
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Radiator Flus
> Transmission/Transaxle flush (Or is this FWD tranny sealed

requiring no

> maintenance?
> Any other maint. tips?
>
> sorry, this car is new to me... lol :)
> Any help is greatly appreciated!

By personal experience,
have a simple answer to your question. CHECK THE BATTERY...My 200
Saturn SL was doing the exact same thing for the last 2 months. I
the last 2 weeks, I was getting a "service engine soon
light, and just recently my battery completely died. I replaced th
battery, and the problems went away immediately. Rational...Saturn
have a finicky electrical system. My family has had 6 Saturns, an
every time the battery dies, it always seems to go without warning
but I have discovered that it is because the cars have been designe
to compensate for batteries that are dying. And, I believe that th
3000 rpm idle is part of that compensation (works the alternato
extra to cover the low power). My 2001 Saturn was at 138,000 mile
and 8 years when this original battery finally died. In summary
extremely high idle?...Check the battery...Simple $65 fix

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