Rigsby94
New LVC Member
I first want to say thanks for all the help I have received on here. With out this site and forum I would be clueless and screwed for the most part lol.
Anyways I have 2000 V8 that has a rough idle when the engine has got completely cold, like after it has set for 3-4 hours in 20-30 degree whether for example. It does it for the first minute or two depending in how cold it is outside and it stops. I had a check engine light come on a couple of times and the code was a P0352 which is some kind of circuit for the coil packs or something like that. I'm not really sure. But it has been off for a couple of weeks but I still get that roughy idle. The rough idle is not like having a misfire, it is like having a bigger cam and it loping. I have been told to replace the coil packs and spark plugs which I may do...but I have also been told it could be a bad intake gasket and its shrinking up when it's cold and expanding when it's warm because its rubber?? The thing that kinda confuses me thought is that I have experience this loping a couple if times after driving the car for long periods of time when the engine is hot. I have only experience and hand full of times over 3 months and about 2500 miles.
Now when I experience the loping when it's could which happens every time the engine gets cold it will do it during idle or in gear until the engine gets warm after a minute or so.
When I have experienced it the very few times when it is warm I have been setting for like 30 seconds or a minute or just setting at a red light for a few seconds. And it's only doing it at idle when the engine is warm NOT while in gear.
I'm just at a lost and kinda confused but I don't want to start throwing parts and money at it before I even have a idea of what it may be. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Anyways I have 2000 V8 that has a rough idle when the engine has got completely cold, like after it has set for 3-4 hours in 20-30 degree whether for example. It does it for the first minute or two depending in how cold it is outside and it stops. I had a check engine light come on a couple of times and the code was a P0352 which is some kind of circuit for the coil packs or something like that. I'm not really sure. But it has been off for a couple of weeks but I still get that roughy idle. The rough idle is not like having a misfire, it is like having a bigger cam and it loping. I have been told to replace the coil packs and spark plugs which I may do...but I have also been told it could be a bad intake gasket and its shrinking up when it's cold and expanding when it's warm because its rubber?? The thing that kinda confuses me thought is that I have experience this loping a couple if times after driving the car for long periods of time when the engine is hot. I have only experience and hand full of times over 3 months and about 2500 miles.
Now when I experience the loping when it's could which happens every time the engine gets cold it will do it during idle or in gear until the engine gets warm after a minute or so.
When I have experienced it the very few times when it is warm I have been setting for like 30 seconds or a minute or just setting at a red light for a few seconds. And it's only doing it at idle when the engine is warm NOT while in gear.
I'm just at a lost and kinda confused but I don't want to start throwing parts and money at it before I even have a idea of what it may be. Any help is greatly appreciated!
