# Car Revs at Idle

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-revs-at-idle/100622>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** spectra, kia\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-revs-at-idle/100622 "2017-03-01T06:10:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![marquesewastaken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@marquesewastaken](https://community.cartalk.com/u/marquesewastaken)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-revs-at-idle/100622/1 "2017-03-01T06:10:32Z")

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So I have an '01 Kia Spectra that revs like crazy in idle and acts like it wants to take off when I start the car. Background info, I just replaced my water pump and it wasn’t doing it before that. Also, before all this, my belt on my alternator and water pump would sqeal whenever I tried to put my a/c on and this was even when I didn’t have a belt around my a/c and power steering. Long story. What gives?

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**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-revs-at-idle/100622/2 "2017-03-01T12:36:59Z")

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Sounds like an intake air leak or a failing idle air control/throttle control (depending on what your car came with). Seems like a separate problem from the water pump but maybe related. Did the air intake tube get torn when the mechanic changed the water pump/ I’d start there.

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**Author:** ![marquesewastaken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@marquesewastaken](https://community.cartalk.com/u/marquesewastaken)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-revs-at-idle/100622/3 "2017-03-01T20:04:40Z")

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I really don’t want to take it back to them but I’m probably going to have to as I don’t want to come out of pocket anymore but another mechanic located out of town whom I trust said that he might have dislodged something, with me having a valve leak.