As far as I know, every car has "the glitch". This is the situation that makes your engine computer get confused and not know what to do, causing the engine to behave erratically. For the 92-95 Civic, it was holding 1500 RPM for more than a few seconds, at which the computer would try to go to idle, but when it goes back to idle it wants to go to 1500, so it bounces from idle to 1500 and back until you add or remove throttle.
In the Cavalier, it has to do with the thing that keeps the engine from stalling.
I was rolling out the clutch, and it unexpectedly grabbed very early, a problem I've been having off and on the past week, and to save from a stall I pushed the clutch back in. Instead of stalling, or saving, it got stuck. The engine would rise to 700 RPM, go back down to 300, and back. Adding throttle didn't help. I restarted the car, and it went back to normal.
I never thought I would have to restart a car because it was behaving like a bad PC with Windows 98, but I guess I can say I have now.
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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...
get use to it, its GM quality.
It only happens at a certain time, AFAIK it involves a huge mathematical formula that includes the alignment of the outer planets to the square root of big bird and stuff...
...basically, you might invoke the glitch in a very rare circumstance that is "just right".
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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...
Seems like that's a circumstance that should come up pretty often. Plenty of people suck at driving a manual, and could accidentally bring the car within a inch of stalling. Some probably do it several times a day. If there was a glitch hidden in some magical rpm combination at that end, I would have expected we'd hear about it by before now. It must be a pretty obscure glitch, for sure.
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No glitch for me. I disabled the ECUs control of the IAC valve and made my own IAC controller. My code is glitch-free and it doesn't try to compensate for newb drivers with poor clutch technique. This driver-assist crap is annoying to people who actually know how to drive stick, so I made the IAC do what it's supposed to do, control the idle, not this anti-stall bull@!#$.
2002 Cavalier 2200 5spd
weird i had the same problem with my 98 5spd about 3 years ago. i was pulling out of a store, in reverse and it happened to me. i shut the car off and restarted and it was fine. i only had this happen to me once though
Well I had a "glitch" once, in my 99 cav 2.2 5spd, when I was learning how to drive stick, I was coming down a hill and the car stall (wrong gear and to much brake), anyway I got the car restarted and the ABS light came on for no reason, I pulled into a parking spot, restarted the car, and to this day have never had the same problem ever!!
This is my 5 cents worth, (normally is would be 2 cents worth but I have adjusted it for inflation)
Car I drive:
99 Chevy Cavalier 2.2L 5 spd man (My daily car)
98 Ford Escort ZX2 4 spd auto
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Well I had a "glitch" once, in my 99 cav 2.2 5spd, when I was learning how to drive stick, I was coming down a hill and the car stall (wrong gear and to much brake), anyway I got the car restarted and the ABS light came on for no reason, I pulled into a parking spot, restarted the car, and to this day have never had the same problem ever!!
That's not a glitch. For one reason or another (car in motion), the ECU couldn't perform the ABS test, and therefore couldn't guarantee its function so it turned the ABS light to let you know it wasn't available.
2002 Cavalier 2200 5spd
