Thanks madeinjapan for responding. Progress report - cleaned throttle body as much as I could. Still cant move the air valve (flap) (gate) and based on all research I think I should be able to. There is buildup between the valve and chamber at the hinge point that I cant get to. Reinstalled and ...

I'm in the reduced engine performance mode - 1500rpm, does not reset with start.

Background -

130,000 miles original owner and first serious issue was the oil trap. got the dreaded whistle. Did the change out and went ahead and changed plugs as well. Car was parked for a while - 3 months or more ...

briefly looked through the posts and did not see anything relating to this issue although there seems to be a fair amount of comments on line in general. I noticed that my 08 started to use oil around 90k miles. consumption currently seems to be close to a quart per 1000 k miles. Will occasionally ...