My 2003 3.0 V6 Camry won't stay idling. I just changed the battery because the old one ws shot. Now it starts up great and dies out. I can drive it but when i come to a stop or turn a corner slow it stalls. It starts back up and will run in park with my foot on the gas.When i take my foot off it dies out. It was running fine before that and there's no check engine light on. I checked the ETCS fuse and its not blown. Does anyone have any ideas?
This is extremely common :)
With time your throttle body gets gummed up with oily residue from the PCV system. As this happens, the computer adapts to the restriction it causes in the throttle body.
When you unhook the battery, these learned values are lost and the default settings for idle control are used. Unfortunately the default settings are no longer sufficient to keep the idle correct with it all gummed up.
Take your intake hoses off the throttle bodies and clean the insides (open the throttle plates for better access) with a rag and some brake parts cleaner or throttle plate cleaner, available from your local parts store.
Reassemble and start the car, your idle problems should be gone immediately.
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Follow the air filter behind the battery back and to the left, they split and have two hose clamps on the engine, that is the throttle body, take those two clamps off and clean inside the two round ports. be sure to open the plate inside to clean around it
Sorry I forgot you have the newer single throttle body... same instructions just only one to clean :)
Remove the hose circled, and clean inside the aluminum throttle body, pointed at with the arrow.
Have a 2003 Toyota Camry V6. Installed a new battery and then the car would not idle. If you kept your foot on the gas it would run fine but if you let off, stall. I disconnected and reconnected the battery a couple of times. No effect. Read your post and cleaned out the throttle body with some carb cleaner on a rag. Reassembled and it starts and runs like it is new. Idle issue gone. Thanks, great post.
Matt
this exact same thing just happened to us. thank goodness we found this information because i am sure someone would have made a pretty penny off of us. This not only worked but it was fun to do!!!! thanks man!!!!
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Whereis the throttle bodylocatedweare having thisproblemand dont know how to resolve it our camry battery died opneevening and we went to replaceit with no start up at first we put theold battery in and it fired rite up but with what seeme to beno throttle or acceleration power we put dry gas in and let it sit nowtoday we started thecamry ran it aroundabit to charge the battery and alternator af6er we did that we stopped somewhere real quick only to comeback outside with the car died and unable to turn back on on its own we jumped the vehicleand now it wont idle with my footbeing on he gaspedal how do we remedy this
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Thank you, I can give it a shot. Only one thing, I'm not very mechanical and I don't know where the intake hoses are and the throttle body. I suppose I can figure it out though.
Thank you, I can give it a shot. Only one thing, I'm not very mechanical and I don't know where the intake hoses are and the throttle body. I suppose I can figure it out though.
Thank you, where is the throttle body and intake hoses. Im not mechanical and could use some direction.
I appreciate your help.
Thank you, where is the throttle body and intake hoses. Im not mechanical and could use some direction.
I appreciate your help.
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