A bad idle control valve can cause a multitude of issues with your car. Check out the Drive’s Garage Guide to identify the signs of a bad idle air control valve.

Cleaning the idle air control valve (IACV) on your vehicle periodically helps keep carbon and other particles from building up on the valve, which can negatively affect the operation of the car ...

The most common culprit is carbon buildup on the throttle body, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve and idle air control (IAC) valve. Here well show you how to clean an EGR valve.

Take the case of Jerry Andersen, who has also gone through four idle air control valves on his Camry. He has replaced the valve at 25,000 miles, 38,000 miles and 47,000.