Porsche manuals hold many more indicators in text

Porsche manuals

We discovered a source for Porsche manuals and embarked on updating the Porsche dashboard symbols page. It was then that we discovered that we had never put up a symbols page for the company.

So, we’re building one using the manuals that are now available and in the process we discovered that Porsche does something we’ve never seen before. The company shows only the red and yellow/amber/orange warning lights for its active systems. Thus to put together a complete set of indicators for Porsche, we are constantly going back and forth in the manuals to find other potential indicator uses.

For instance, this is a set of Driver Assistance indicators, which look suspiciously like advanced cruise control symbols. They range from red to yellow/amber/orange to green and to gray. Only the yellow/amber/orange symbol is found in the indicators list. The red one is a grab the wheel indicator rather than a fault indicator, and each of the others have a purpose as well.

This makes our process endlessly tedious but we are slogging our way through. We are also curious to go back and check on our recent manuals rants — we may discover that other manufacturers are doing the same thing.

Its tempting to do the same here, but it feels like we would be shortchanging drivers doing so. We of course will post as soon as the Porsche page is ready, and while we’ve been through a number of manuals, there are many more to go. However, the manuals do become repetitive so we may post prior to having finished a full scan. It will show up in our manufacturer list.

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 abbreviation or 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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