Stalled out

Tiny
THE_HEFFER1
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  • 2000 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE
  • 6 CYL
  • FWD
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2000 bonneville ssei, 148000 mi. Car runs fine, good idle good power ect. But the other day, son, driving home, |@65mph, let off accelerator when going down long grade, motor died. Coasted to stop, stated right up, drive a few miles and same thing, let off gas pedal, die. I drove this morn, drove fine, made 1 stop and at next stop it died. Started up and drove on to work. Drove home fine. Any clues?
Monday, February 21st, 2011 AT 3:35 PM

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Tiny
JDL
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Maybe you need to clean throttle-body and iac/idle air control. Any applicable trouble codes? Some of the national brand autostores used to check codes for free.

How long since a tune-up? Usually with idle issues, I clean the throttle-body, also, clean the iac/idle air control, where applicable.
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 AT 4:38 PM

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