The First Warning Lights In a simpler day, if your engine’s oil pressure dropped too low, your dashboard, or more properly, your instrument panel, would have had an analog oil pressure gauge displaying the pressure reading and a warning light, a red dot, that would come on to get your attention. Then some manufacturers did …
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The Single Most Misunderstood Warning Indicator on Your Instrument Panel – Part I
The Tire Pressure Monitoring System Have you seen or are you seeing this light on your instrument panel? What the heck does the symbol mean and what the heck do you do about it? It is the TPMS – Tire Pressure Monitoring System – indicator. And it is the single most misunderstood warning indicator you …
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What the Hell is that Light on My Dashboard?
Warning Symbols and Tell-tales What the Hell is that Light on My Dashboard? Automotive service departments across the country are inundated with questions like this on a daily basis. So, what IS that light? That new acronym? What do they mean? Do you know? Here at DashboardSymbols.com, we will show you, to help you understand …
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Automotive Warning Light Anti-logic
There Is Little Logic In Warning Lights We’ve taken thousands of calls in service departments over the years and there is nearly no end to the way drivers describe the various warning lights that pop up on their instrument panels. These, of course, are not car people, just average every day drivers trying to describe …
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