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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 10:34 PM
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IN gear at idle the whole car shakes.
Other wise its perfect@ 2mph or in nuetral
would mounts do this?
 
Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:14 AM
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this is happened to me last time. after checked by my mechanic and he said the problem is fuel filter. The fuel filter is dirty.
 
Old Aug 21, 2008 | 03:25 AM
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The idle will hunt up/down also.
as soon as it passes like 1k rpms it smooths out.
Like its got a miss.
But it dont
I guess a fuel filter could do that,or cloggy injectors

The shaking is definitly from used mounts,but the sloppy idle isnt helping it any.
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