td5 auto problem please help

Hello all and happy new year,

The missus has a 2000 discovery TD5 AUTO when you start it and drive sometimes it seams like it stuck in 1 gear and other times it seams like its in 3 gear and some times it drives perfect changes up and down with no trouble any help would be great thanks

no one on here knows ? :doh:

dont know if this will help , if its first thing in the moring they tend to hold the gears longer also if up hill they can hold the gear for a while as well the zf auto box does this.if you select D and it does not pull away straight away it waits for 2seconds before pulling then the clutch pack in the auto box could be on its way out.This happened to me the way to test is try reverse see if it pull straight away then try D if there is a difference in the time it takes to engage drive then it may be the clutch pack slipping in D

thanks for the help but have noticed that when i driver for 5 minutes it all fine again with smooth changes ,so at first its pot luck to see which gear i have to drive in for first 5 mins

you could try changing the oil and filter in the auto box see if that helps.The oil gets thiner when its hot so maybe the filter is a bit cloged

yeah changed it still the same ,would anyone think its the battary its got a HCB 072 starting power 550 amps and due to the winter heated seats ,window is draining the power for the auto box ecu when starting up and when driving for 5 mins it charged it back up

i can go into limp home mode if battery low ie stuck in 3 gear but the m&s light usually shows.