Discussions on topics of interest to drivers concerning things they may not understand about their vehicles as well as articles on the future of the auto industry.
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Ram Symbols Our Ram symbols page update is finished. Despite there being only four basic models, the update added nearly 40 warning lights, symbols and indicators. The page now holds over 110 images. Fortunately, of the additions, only nine were actually new to our collection. And those were generally simple rearrangements of existing symbols. For …
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Land Rover symbols A re-arrangement of the Land Rover symbols page by color is complete. We finished the creation of the Porsche page, which was admittedly a bear, and thought we’d take a break from our European pages and update a simpler one, Ram. The company offers only four vehicles and already we’ve added 26 …
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Keyless start I had two comments from the same viewer on our YouTube channel regarding his keyless start car. His first comment was “This did not work nor did the other two videos and my battery isn’t dead” and the second one was “Why don’t they just make cars with keys you could put into …
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Ram back-up A complete review of 2024 and 2025 models results in no changes to the Ram back-up entry and start page. All Ram models use the tried and true “push the start/stop button with the back of the key fob” to start the vehicles. In fact all the Ram’s models have used this simple …
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Porsche Symbols Our Porsche symbols page is at last finished and posted. It is automatically fully updated through 2025, but it the process, we added 32 warning symbols and indicators that were not previously in our system. As is more often than not the case, the majority of the symbols are simply unnecessary re-arrangements of …
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Porsche stability management Manufacturers are in love with the idea of creating new names for existing systems. But Porsche takes this to the highest level, putting the company name on systems, in this case Porsche Stability Management (PSM). This of course, turns out to be nothing more than stability control, which — thankfully — uses …
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Unusual abbreviation added to the acronyms and abbreviations page
Acronyms and abbreviations We have a unusual new entry on our acronyms and abbreviations and abbreviations page: TDA (Trailer Drive Assist). Unusual because the system, from Toyota, uses no less than seven driving assist systems in the vehicle to aid with towing control, and does not have its own indicator. When active, it uses the …
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