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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Kia back up entry update adds three new key fobs

Kia back up entry update As we got into a Kia back up entry update, we found that we had ignored several key fobs from both Kia and Hyundai going back 10 years! The result is three new key fobs on the page, and the knowledge that there are several more we will continue to …

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Kia back up entry update includes a new entry method

Kia back up entry update We have a new Kia back up entry update and, very much like we stated for Hyundai, the new processes make us wish they’d make up their minds. Back up entry processes are necessary for those moments when the key fob’s battery dies, which happens all too often. There is …

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Latest entry to our Acronym Page

Acronym Page Update We added a new entry to our acronym page: Downhill Brake Control (DBC). Sometimes, a symbol or indicator seen on an instrument panel and hosted here on the site is in the form of a three or four letter Acronym or Abbreviation, as with the example. Auto manufacturers assume that any given …

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Our Genesis dashboard symbols update adds 11 indicators, but none new

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Genesis dashboard symbols update In the vast majority of cases, a symbols update involves literally making a half dozen brand new indicators. However, our Genesis dashboard symbols update was a simple matter of adding 11 pre-existing indicators to the table. This is primarily because the new technology introduced in Genesis this year has also been …

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New video dropped on our YouTube channel: Open and Start a Kia EV9 with a dead key fob battery

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Open and Start a Kia EV9 We have added a video to our YouTube channel demonstrating how to open and start a Kia EV9 with a dead key fob battery. The model offers a new and unique key hole cover to overcome (below right). The door handle needs to be help all the way open …

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Video page overhaul nearly complete

Video page overhaul We just completed a major video pages overhaul that results in the removal of one page and an attempt at a table of contents (TOC) that made a mess of the whole remaining page. We did find a TOC generator plug-in that we will attempt to use on another day. The move …

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A brand new tech shows up in the Hyundai dashboard symbols update

Hyundai dashboard symbols update FCEV, ESC, ISLA, N launch — these are all bits and pieces of the 11 new entries from our latest Hyundai dashboard symbols update. However, another stands out as a brand new self-driving technology. First, we’ll explain the other additions already noted. FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) is an acronym now …

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