I need help with my Mazda?

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Jonathan

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I have a 2002 Mazda Protegé 5, great car, I love it. But lately it has been having a very big problem. I can't seem to figure out the problem. When I start the engine, the engine idle fluctuates very vastly. It struggles for a few minutes until it rights itself and idles at a steady rate. Once in a while when it's fluctuating, it'll even make the engine stop and I'll have to restart it once or twice. Sometimes I even have to rev the engine just to make the tachometer needle stop bouncing. I'm thinking it might be the mass-air sensor. Because of the climate change, it seems to have trouble finding a rate to idle at so it jumps around. If it were my transmission fluid, which is a manual transmission, then I would have smelled the transmission fluid, but there is no leak and my transmission works fine.
 
Mechanic.

is there some amazing reason why you haven't taken the car in and had a mechanic look at it?

Describing the problem is great. But we're not there to troubleshoot it, inspect it, or anything else.

So what could you possibly hope from us, except wild guesses?
 
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