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Originally Posted by jm1234
Is it shutting off or stalling? Perhaps the car is shifting into neutral and trying to idle but something is wrong with the idle control valve and the car stalls. All you see is the car in neutral and the engine dead. I ask because you mention a problem with the rev dropping low. If the car is in gear then you would feel a severe jerk if the revs really drop to 500. Do you feel that? It could be something as simple as a bad/dirty ICV? It's something to check in older cars when the have problems idling but I imagine there could be problems with the valve on a new car too. Do you ever have problems when the car is idling? Is it worse with the AC on?
I'm not an expert mechanic, but you did ask.
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In my experience, the engine was totally off. I had to pull over to see what was going on but engine started fine after that. And at 1500 miles, no problems.