Category: Articles & Commentaries

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.

Kia symbols page gets the new color treatment

Kia symbols page On the heels of finding another half dozen symbols that were not included in the owner’s manual list, we have transformed our Kia symbols page into the new color alignment. The addition of the new symbols, discussed here as an owner’s manual fail, the page now holds exactly 100 entries. We’ve now …

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We’ve now made Symbols by Manufacturer our main symbols page

Symbols by manufacturer For some time now, we’ve recommended searching our symbols by manufacturer pages as the most effective way of finding what our visitors needs. Well, we finally swapped that page in to be the main symbols page. The process of rearranging all our pages by color put the issue front and center. In …

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Total page views at DashboardSymbols.com surpassed 46 million in Oct. 2024

Total page views In October of 2024, DashboardSymbols.com saw its total page views pass the 46 million mark. The site is seen by thousands of drivers every day. Since our founding in 2010, over 31.5 million visitors have accessed over 64.3 million pages and videos. And each one of those visitors is looking for help …

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Another owner’s manual fail, this time from Kia

Kia owner’s manual fail Well, we’ve found another. A few weeks ago we reported on the discovery that Mazda had begun leaving instrument panel indicators out of the list found in the owner’s manual. Now we find that Kia has done the same thing, this time in my Niro EV! I’ve found two sets of …

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Infiniti symbols page has now been re-ordered by color

Infiniti symbols page Our Infiniti symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed well over a dozen pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect the new color ordering. The page features a number of indicators that reach well over 80, now ordered red through yellow/orange/amber (depending on how you interpret …

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Subaru symbols page is now in color order

Subaru symbols page In advance of a full update, we have re-ordered the Subaru symbols page by color. We’ve have been doing this with all our dashboard symbols pages over the last several weeks, including our main dashboard symbols page. The process for the Subaru page is now complete. We’ve have now transformed over a …

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Got the car wash blues

Car wash So I took the Kia EV for its second car wash since becoming its owner and ended up stuck with the Park Brake warning light on. So the question is why? I slid into the car wash’s track and placed the car in neutral, as one should. But, I had forgotten that I …

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