Marc Favreau

The author has 30+ years of automotive experience and has assembled the most extensive collection of symbols and warning lights anywhere (over 1,000!) and can help you open and start any keyless start car with a dead key fob battery. BA, St. Joseph's, ME: MS, RPI, NY

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Open and Start a Subaru with a Dead Key Fob

Subaru Key Style 1

How to Open and Start a Subaru with a Dead Key Fob This page holds all of the emergency open and start or back-up open and start procedures needed for Subaru vehicles if the battery in the key fob dies or if there are electrical signals interfering with the fob. Getting into Your Subaru First, …

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Open a Mitsubishi with a Dead Key Fob Battery

Mitsubishi Ignition Knob

How to Open a Mitsubishi with a Dead Key Fob This page holds all of the emergency open or back-up open procedures needed for  Mitsubishi vehicles if the battery in the key fob dies or if there are electrical signals interfering with the fob. Getting into Your Mitsubishi First, if you are already inside, click …

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Forward Alert and AVSM Indicators

Forward collision alert indicator

Forward Alert These are Forward Alert Indicator symbols. It shows an image of a car alone or inside a triangle. The use of the triangle is for reasons known only to the manufacturer. The technology makes use the Advanced Cruise Control (ACC) radar, even when the ACC is not in use, to warn if you …

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Automatic or Active Speed Limiter or Malfunction Indicators

Set Indicator (Cruise Control)

Common Speed Limiter Symbols These are Speed Limiter and Automatic or Active or Adaptive Speed Limiter (ASL) Indicator symbols. They illuminate when a speed has been set and the limiter is active. It will appear in green unless or until the set speed is reached when it turns yellow/amber. Before continuing, are you sure one …

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Two Agencies Cite Evidence That Hands Free Is Not Distraction Free

Distracted

Hands Free? Earlier this month, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety released a study stating that new vehicle hands free features may actually increase mental distraction. Now, a report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) finds that a 2013 truck, train collision at a highway railroad crossing in Maryland was caused in no small …

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Seven Things to Know About Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

Know Your TPMS Its Fall (2014) and time once again for your car’s equivalent of Seasonal Affective Disorder, your Tire Pressure Monitoring System or TPMS. If equipped, one of the two TPMS warning indicators shown will soon attempt to get your attention (Drivers most commonly describe the lights as horseshoes with exclamation points or arrows in …

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Crash Revisited: NTSB Cites Pilot Mismanagement

It Was the Pilots The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has cited pilot mismanagement and confusion in the crash of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco in 2013. The Agency also blamed the system’s complexity in the accident that cost the lives of three passengers. We’ve called attention to this before (here) and care about …

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