Thread: Erring speedo on start-up

Greetings all!
My Defender (Td5-engine, 2001 MY) has recently developed the following symptoms:
On start-up from cold the speedo needle goes up approximately to the 50/60 mark, stays there for a couple of seconds before plummeting to its resting position again. This happens inconsistently only and has never occurred when starting the warm engine.
I find this most puzzling and don't have any clue what the reason might be and therefore hope someone here will be able to enlighten me. I have a slight worry that this symptom heralds the failure of some components that, in accordance with Murphy's Law, will be difficult/expensive/almost impossible to repair and hence want to address this problem in time.
Thanks for all advice!
Cheers

I had the same thing with my last defender 99 td5.

No idea why it did it, I just put it down to, it was trying to talk to me.