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My front rotors and rear drums are 4 years old, and they are not visibly worn-out where the pads touch them, but the rotors are rusted between the plates and the drums are rusted on the outside. They are the original rotors and drums that came with the car, when I bought it new in 2002. Should...

The IAC is the Solenoid valve, I cleaned it before the EGR, but it made no difference in the rough idle. Idle Air Controller (IAC), a motor-driven valve which controls intake air to maintain idle RPM in internal combustion engines http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1797962 The EGR...

I took off the air intake tube and the battery, I don't have a strut bar. Taking off the battery does give you alot of extra elbow room, and with the battery disconnected the ECU is reset. Just be careful with the battery contacts, you could get a nasty shock. I spread a white rag under the...

I have a 2002 protege LX with auto-trans and about 40,000 KM. I started to get the rough idle problem a few months ago and it slowly got worse, but it never stalled. I googled around and found this forum and I read all the posts in this thread. Two weeks ago I cleaned the solenoid, because it's...