2001 Pontiac Grand Am: high idle, high rpm shifting

[Ronnie Binkley]

I replaced my mass air flow sensor on the side of the throttle body and it fixed my high idle problems. takes about 5 min to fix.

[corem]

Originally Posted by jessica naviaux

I have an 02 pontiac grand am v6 3.4 the symptoms are it started high idling and then it progressed to going to over 4000 rpms to get the car to move and then it progresses to get better after about 30 to 45 mins after that time frame it acts like a normal car i do have an 02 sensor going bad PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME

Have you check trans fluid? The high idling could number of things like vacuum leak or idle air control valve. Have had codes pulled to see what the computer is seeing going on. One good thing to check is throttle body for carbon build up.