My 2006 ford crown vic will not go into drive right away in the morning or when i start it up after sitting a while.. Will take time to go into drive after accelerating

Thank you will do.. It runs great after it goes into drive And will go into drive faster after car is ran.. the longer it sits and cools down the more it will happen if that makes any sense

I'm having the same problem with my car, I have to hold break and rev it to get it in drive. Once driving there are no problems at all. Goes into reverse fine to. Right before all this started it would slip outta gear if I turned onto another rd from a stop. Found out If I turn overdrive off it doesn't happen anymore. Was good for two days and then this happened and now I have to get car to operating temp to even have a chance of getting it in drive. Seems to have a better chance working if I go to reverse and let it kick in and back to drive and hit the gas (trying not to get rpms too high) and eventually it will drop in gesr. This has to be bad for my tranny. Help plz 07 crown vic just paid it off. Besides that I'm late everywhere lol

Same with my car. After a few weeks I decided to feel around under the steering wheel and just lightly touching wires. I swiped my hand across the fuse box and everything in my dash lit up and that's how I knew it was ready to shift. Next morning, no shifting again, so I touched the fuse box again and right away it was ready to shift. Only happens now when the temps are low at night.

Strainer may need changing, fluid gets thinner as it warms up able to penetrate clogging filter, cheapest thing to do first, hey worth it if it works for yours!