Facing some issues with gas pedal depress

[MikeM.]

I guess it's just the logic of the ECU that's causing the lag not present in other vehicles I've owned, even when being ham-fisted. I cannot prove it's the tq converter, and it did seem to take a second for the RPMS to increase, as well. Indicating ECU involvement.

Numerous ECU's are involved in almost everything the CX-5 does, that's what makes it such an amazing vehicle.

What you need to understand, is that when you drive it how you did in your ham-fisted video, you are starting out in Neutral! It takes a moment to shift to 1st when you don't properly prepare. You've probably never driven a car that automatically unloads the torque converter while waiting at stoplights to save fuel. And everyone likes to save fuel, even when it's under $2/gallon!

The other advantage to unloading the torque converter while stuck in traffic or waiting for a green light is that it helps reduce peak temperatures of the transmission fluid on broiling hot days. And this helps it last longer. I've never owned a vehicle this advanced but that didn't prevent me from learning how to drive it competently!

 

[Unobtanium]

Numerous ECU's are involved in almost everything the CX-5 does, that's what makes it such an amazing vehicle.

What you need to understand, is that when you drive it how you did in your ham-fisted video, you are starting out in Neutral! It takes a moment to shift to 1st when you don't properly prepare. You've probably never driven a car that automatically unloads the torque converter while waiting at stoplights to save fuel. And everyone likes to save fuel, even when it's under $2/gallon!

The other advantage to unloading the torque converter while stuck in traffic or waiting for a green light is that it helps reduce peak temperatures of the transmission fluid on broiling hot days. And this helps it last longer. I've never owned a vehicle this advanced but that doesn't prevent me from driving it competently!

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks. Now if only this technology could be placed in vehicles with high stall ratios (aftermarket converters), people could drive them in daily traffic with less heat issues, etc. etc. etc. Or maybe they already have such things and I just don't know it.

 

[CC58]

Here is what happens when you floor it. Lots of lag due to the tiny torque converter, is what I think it is. Takes what feels like about one and a half second for the car to move from the time you floor it. Always puts you behind anyone beside you from the get-go. Tip-in gets much more immediate movement as it doesn't overwhelm the little tq converter, but flooring it will leave you sitting there wondering what the hell. Never had a car with "dead in the water" reflexes off the line like my CX-5.

Do you hear a "click" at bottom of gas pedal? If not, you are not flooring it hard enough. That switch is there to tell the computer to quit trying to save gas, and take off like a bat out of Hades. The CX-5 is not a corvette, so don't expect it to behave like one. Something tells me you put mileage on your CX-5 ... a quarter mile at a time.

Next time try power braking to load the converter up, and make sure you "click" that switch at bottom of gas pedal. Not recommended for warranty reasons.