Another owner’s manual fail, albeit a minor one

Owner’s manual fail

While continuing our update of the Toyota dashboard symbols page, we ran into another rather minor owner’s manual fail.

Looking through the 2025 Sequoia manual, we ran across an Auto LSD indicator. Now those letters were bound to get our attention, but forgetting that this is not a new system and that we already had this indicator on the Toyota page, we ran through the entire Sequoia manual looking the an explanation of the abbreviation.

That explanation does not exist in the manual.

LSD stands for Limited Slip Differential, and Auto LSD uses the traction control system to control engine performance and braking when one of the rear wheels begins to spin, increasing traction to the wheel that’s not spinning.

And this turns out not to be a new phenomenon. We went back as far as 2021 in Sequoia manuals and its not there either! Evidently no one has told them, and we simply can’t imagine that the average driver knows its meaning!

Well, we have it on our Toyota symbols page, which you can see here.

Cars are changing, and among those changes is the growing number of symbols and indicators that will invariably show up on your dashboard or instrument panel. Every year, new features are added to vehicles, each of which is accompanied by a new symbol or symbols and likely a new acronym.

At DashboardSymbols.com, our aim is to help you understand what is happening to your vehicle at the first sign of trouble — a new warning light illuminated on your instrument panel. Its all here on this website. Our first intention is to bring the latest technologies down to earth and understandable for everyday drivers.

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