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Was driving after work, picked up le gf, then got less than a block away and the car went into limp mode. Or worse than that because it felt as though the car was just rolling on idle. Engine would start and then just start to sputter like crazy. Check engine light on, VSA light on and some other lights in the cluster as well.

Car started to sputter insanely. I thought the car had had it, After 220k kms it was done. Pulled over to the side of the road. Called up my brother, gf getting worried and pissed at the same time, lol. Luckily he lived close by and has a reader with him, plugged it in, found out it was the throttle body.

Luckily I had just gotten off of work and had all my tools in the car, took apart the air intake in the car. The intake was missing a piece, it had fallen into the engine bay luckily and we found it. But that wasn't the problem. Looked into the throttle body and there was a crumpled into a ball piece of paper wedged in the throttle body, must have gotten in through the opening after said piece fell off. Got it just in time, it didn't get sucked in or else we would have had a deeper issue to deal with.

Breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the crumpled piece of paper out, put the system back together, car started up no problems! no unwanted warning lights! I was literally shaking on the inside at the thought of my car breaking down, I love it so much and it would have been sad to see it go that way.

The TSX breathes another day, here's to another 100k kms on ole Janet.