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Car does while stopped

Tiny
SPICE9195
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1997 Cavalier, 117,000 miles 2.2L automatic Car will start ok but if I don't get in gear and drive quick enough it will die. If I get it going I could drive forever with no problem but when I get to a stoplight and make a complete stop it will die. It makes no noises like when an engines dies, it just does. When I bought the car last year it needed something called an EGR valve but I never had any problems so I didn't replace it. Had the engine light read and it said that again and something about an Idle air control. Which one of these will make the car die? The Autozone guy said the later and somebody else says the EGR valve.
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Monday, June 11th, 2007 AT 12:04 AM

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Tiny
E40WATER12
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Well u you got the trouble code scanned and its the EGR valve, Thats the part needs to be replaced.
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Monday, June 11th, 2007 AT 12:39 AM
Tiny
LDREUSSER
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My car is experiencing the exact same thing! No one seems to have an answer. Did you determine the cause yet? I would appreciate any information! ;-)

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 AT 5:58 PM
Tiny
BPRICE443
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The EGR valve will cause those symtoms and so will the ide speed motor. I would replace the bad parts and you should be fine
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 AT 2:07 AM

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