# Occasionally stalls at idle

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/occasionally-stalls-at-idle/3383>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** stalling\
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/occasionally-stalls-at-idle/3383 "2007-08-20T15:30:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Litahni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7feea3/32.png) [@Litahni](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Litahni)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/occasionally-stalls-at-idle/3383/1 "2007-08-20T15:30:22Z")

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Two weeks ago I took my '03 MazdaSpeed Protege to the dealership for an oil change. Well ever since then I have been having this wierd issue. It has been occasionally stalling when I push in the clutch or shift into neutral. It is only doing this at lower speeds, thank goodness. There really is no rhyme or reason to this: sometimes it does it when the engine is hot and been driven hard and sometimes it does it during a morning trip to the corner store. It just loses RPM’s and stalls out; starts right back up no problem. I took it back to the dealership to see if they had any clue what it could be, but, after a visual inspection, they couldn’t tell me anything. No clue. Any Ideas? Could it be the air filter? They claim to have checked it, but I’m not sure if I believe them. It’s cold air intake and the filter can only be gotten to from underneath the car, which requires me to put it on ramps to check it because I can’t even get my head under there. Could it be the feul filter? I pray not. Other than this the car runs beautifully. Thanks for you wonderful input, as always.

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**Author:** ![Litahni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7feea3/32.png) [@Litahni](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Litahni)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/occasionally-stalls-at-idle/3383/2 "2007-08-28T19:52:37Z")

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Could it be the Idle control valve (or whatever it’s called)? Sometimes it almost stalls then recovers itself by spiking a little before going back to normal idle speed.