Duration to Start Motor?

Has anyone noticed that it seems to take longer for the motor to start than other vehicles? My wife is driving our CX-9 and she told me a few times that it won't start on the first try....almost every time she drives it! I simply told her that she wasn't holding the key turned long enough and short starting it....Well that was until I drove the car over the weekend. I had to hold the key in the start position for over a solid second at least until it would kick over?? I know a second isn't a long time...but think about it? Doesn't that seem like a long time to keep the starter going before the engine starts up? Just curious if anyone else has noticed this?

I don't have that issue. Everytime I turn the ignition key from ACC to START, the engine starts immediately.

With my CX9, it usually takes about 3 rotations and it fires up.

engine start time

it may be due to ambient temperature, colder means it allows more revolutions for the oil pump to circulate oil which is a good thing, I noticed the responses here stating start up right away in warmer climates (hmm?). I know that I was told by Ford that my explorer had a several sec. delay to circulate oil (back in the 90's).

I'd consider it a good thing, as long as one second doesn't become two or three and so on.

D.

Seems OK now?

Well, I don't know if it was temperature related or just a fact that the CX-9 hadn't been run very much since it had been on the lot for a while;
but it seems ok now? The issue lasted about 2-3 weeks or so then went away? Even though it's getting colder out now it doesn't seem to take as long as it did when the CX-9 was new?

Thanks for the replies....
Todd

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