2005 Tacoma cold engine idle speed?

Don't have a shop manual yet, but my new 2005 Tacoma with 4 cylinder
engine and automatic transmission seems to have a terribly high idle speed
at first start on a cold morning. About 2200 rpm for one or two seconds,
then 2000 rpm for one or two more minutes. Kind of scary, I think.
Now, by cold, I don't mean cold, cold, but say maybe 45 to 55 F.
I know from lots of past experience that cold start ldle on most gas
engines can and should be higher than hot idle, but I would think 1000 rpm
for a minute or so would be plenty high.
What do you guys think?
Lynn

Lynn Coffelt wrote:[color=blue]
> Don't have a shop manual yet, but my new 2005 Tacoma with 4 cylinder
> engine and automatic transmission seems to have a terribly high idle speed
> at first start on a cold morning. About 2200 rpm for one or two seconds,
> then 2000 rpm for one or two more minutes. Kind of scary, I think.
> Now, by cold, I don't mean cold, cold, but say maybe 45 to 55 F.
> I know from lots of past experience that cold start ldle on most gas
> engines can and should be higher than hot idle, but I would think 1000 rpm
> for a minute or so would be plenty high.
> What do you guys think?
> Lynn
>
>[/color]

It's normal, I think there's something about it in the owners manual

Paulie

It may be by design but there's nothing "Normal" about the looks I get
from others in the parking lot when Fire up my 2005. " No, really, I
don't have the pedal floored !' I Hate it! but darn little else about
this 2.7.

Kevin T

kgt wrote:[color=blue]
> It may be by design but there's nothing "Normal" about the looks I get
> from others in the parking lot when Fire up my 2005.[/color]

LOTS of 2005 cars do this, as does my neighbor's 2004 Ram. Just wait
until the people with the looks get their next new car. <G>

"B a r r y" <keep_it_in_the_newsgroup_please@thankyou.com> wrote in message
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> kgt wrote:[color=green]
>> It may be by design but there's nothing "Normal" about the looks I get
>> from others in the parking lot when Fire up my 2005.[/color]
>
> LOTS of 2005 cars do this, as does my neighbor's 2004 Ram. Just wait
> until the people with the looks get their next new car. <G>[/color]

The 2002 Tacoma does it, too. Based on other complaints I've seen here, the
03 & 04s are the same way. And, the automatic tranny doesn't get
un-arthritic for about 2 miles when it's really cold out. Won't shift up
from 2nd or 3rd. Drive gently.

"Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| "B a r r y" <keep_it_in_the_newsgroup_please@thankyou.com> wrote in
message
| news:haNcf.2590$p37.1928@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
| > kgt wrote:
| >> It may be by design but there's nothing "Normal" about the looks I
get
| >> from others in the parking lot when Fire up my 2005.
| >
| > LOTS of 2005 cars do this, as does my neighbor's 2004 Ram. Just
wait
| > until the people with the looks get their next new car. <G>
|
| The 2002 Tacoma does it, too. Based on other complaints I've seen
here, the
| 03 & 04s are the same way. And, the automatic tranny doesn't get
| un-arthritic for about 2 miles when it's really cold out. Won't shift
up
| from 2nd or 3rd. Drive gently.
|
|

'99 V-6 does it too. I shift the auto tranny into gear right after
starting the engine. It lowers the rpm some. Glad somebody else noticed
the slow to shift tranny.
--
Jarhead

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain
the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the
government." ---Patrick Henry

It sounds about right to me.





"Lynn Coffelt" <coffelt2@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:D7WdnR55BYtrA-_eRVn-qQ@comcast.com...[color=blue]
> Don't have a shop manual yet, but my new 2005 Tacoma with 4 cylinder
> engine and automatic transmission seems to have a terribly high idle speed
> at first start on a cold morning. About 2200 rpm for one or two seconds,
> then 2000 rpm for one or two more minutes. Kind of scary, I think.
> Now, by cold, I don't mean cold, cold, but say maybe 45 to 55 F.
> I know from lots of past experience that cold start ldle on most gas
> engines can and should be higher than hot idle, but I would think 1000 rpm
> for a minute or so would be plenty high.
> What do you guys think?
> Lynn
>
>[/color]