This is on the wife's Q5 with the ZF 8HP transmission that is widely used in many other vehicles as well. It has done this since day 1. Right now it has 5K miles.
When you first start driving (on a completely cold engine/trans), regardless if summer or winter, the trans seems to hold onto that 1st gear unusually long, and then somewhat violently/abruptly dumps it into 2nd gear. It only does it this one time. All the subsequent 1->2 shifts are smooth. I could come to a stop 5 seconds after that and then start moving again, and that next 1st --> 2nd shift will now be smooth.
None of the other automatic trans I've ever driven did anything like it, but my experience with automatics is rather limited in general, so I don't want to use this as a benchmark. I've asked on an audi forum, and it seems that about half of all Q5 owners experience this, and most just consider it normal. Is it? Is it just a matter of the transmission needing some movement of the parts to get the fluid circulating properly?
I can certainly bring it to the dealer's attention next time she goes in for service, but getting them to reproduce this issue is going to be the tough part.
When you first start driving (on a completely cold engine/trans), regardless if summer or winter, the trans seems to hold onto that 1st gear unusually long, and then somewhat violently/abruptly dumps it into 2nd gear. It only does it this one time. All the subsequent 1->2 shifts are smooth. I could come to a stop 5 seconds after that and then start moving again, and that next 1st --> 2nd shift will now be smooth.
None of the other automatic trans I've ever driven did anything like it, but my experience with automatics is rather limited in general, so I don't want to use this as a benchmark. I've asked on an audi forum, and it seems that about half of all Q5 owners experience this, and most just consider it normal. Is it? Is it just a matter of the transmission needing some movement of the parts to get the fluid circulating properly?
I can certainly bring it to the dealer's attention next time she goes in for service, but getting them to reproduce this issue is going to be the tough part.