Thread: Td5 Auto slow to get going first thing

Originally Posted by 00quattro00

When starting my td5 disco for the first time from cold the auto takes a few seconds to start moving in both forwards and reverse, almost feels like it needs to build up pressure before it starts to move, if I give it throttle it revs up a bit. Other than that it seems fine, once driven its fine for the rest of the day

I'd say there's an oil leak internally in the Auto.
Discorevy will have some insight as to what if he sees the post.

Mine does that too. I'm not sure why. I idle it in N for a short period before driving off and that seems to get the fluid to whereever it is meant to be.

Me too.
Mine specifically when cold .. cold.
eg. overnight if it's been high teens or say 20 degrees .. no problem.
But if it's been low teens, maybe mid teens, does the same thing ... idle for 30sec in park or N .. and then no slipping sluggishness.
If I idle it in Drive, it seems to build up it's pressure a bit quicker ... maybe 15 sec or so.

If I go to work, and have it parked up for eg. 10 hours, weirdly, no problem again.
But if I get home at say 12 or 1 am, then start it up again first thing in the morning (say 6 or 7 am) .. sluggish again.

So it seems to be temp(cold) dependent or 'an overnight' thing???

The other possibility of this strangeness is that my drive is on a very slight incline, maybe 5 degree, and I park it facing up the incline.
At work my parking is usually pretty much flat.
This is the only other anomaly that comes to mind in the differences in how it sits for a time and has this intermittent issue.

Mine too, on two different autos.

Originally Posted by AK83

Me too.
Mine specifically when cold .. cold.
eg. overnight if it's been high teens or say 20 degrees .. no problem.
But if it's been low teens, maybe mid teens, does the same thing ... idle for 30sec in park or N .. and then no slipping sluggishness.
If I idle it in Drive, it seems to build up it's pressure a bit quicker ... maybe 15 sec or so.

If I go to work, and have it parked up for eg. 10 hours, weirdly, no problem again.
But if I get home at say 12 or 1 am, then start it up again first thing in the morning (say 6 or 7 am) .. sluggish again.

So it seems to be temp(cold) dependent or 'an overnight' thing???

The other possibility of this strangeness is that my drive is on a very slight incline, maybe 5 degree, and I park it facing up the incline.
At work my parking is usually pretty much flat.
This is the only other anomaly that comes to mind in the differences in how it sits for a time and has this intermittent issue.

It needs more sleep

When cold the fluid takes longer to drain back to the transmission sump so you don’t get drive.

Once warmed up fluid flows back quicker and life is good.

So have you checked the fluid level?

Mine does the same, I've been told it's a weak t/c seal, also known as a lazy converter.

That seems very common issue but might be even normal in some cases cos first of all the Td5 is supposed to stay at idle after cold start for 15 seconds anyway, auto or not, i suppose that by analogy a similar theory like for the turbo applies to the autobox too:

(from the WSM)
"The engine should be allowed to idle for 15 seconds following engine start up and before the engine is switched off
to protect the turbocharger by maintaining oil supply to the turbine bearings."

Another thing is that if there is any current fault code which might not affect the driveability but it's there the ECUs need few seconds to restore a partially optimal default strategy(provided the fault is "compatible" with such thing)

I've seen this symptom at some friends and it seems more common on the de-EGR'd vehicles which were not remapped for that and EGR fault codes are always there, in some cases resetting the TCU's addaptive values with nanocom or similar can help as well but at the end IMO it's something to live with as long as everything else works fine