diff --git a/meta-ibm/recipes-phosphor/pldm/pldm_%.bbappend b/meta-ibm/recipes-phosphor/pldm/pldm_%.bbappend
index 5d9af10..89ac856 100644
--- a/meta-ibm/recipes-phosphor/pldm/pldm_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-ibm/recipes-phosphor/pldm/pldm_%.bbappend
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
         -Dsoftoff-timeout-seconds=2700 \
         "
 
+#5 second timeout defined inside PLDM has seen issues during reset reload
+#so increasing that to 10 seconds here.IBMs custom firmware stack can tolerate
+#PLDM timeouts of up to 20 seconds, so using timeout value of 10 seconds is safe.
+EXTRA_OEMESON += " \
+         -Ddbus-timeout-value=10 \
+        "
+
 SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'oem-ibm', \
     'pldm-create-phyp-nvram.service \
      pldm-create-phyp-nvram-cksum.service \