Off road auxiliary lighting This is an Off Road Auxiliary Lighting Active Indicator symbol. It appears in some Ford models when the lighting is activated and is seen as an oval with lines radiating out as a light with curved lines and a tree as the outdoors. Before continuing, is one of these truly your …
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Emergency steering warning indicators
Emergency steering These are Emergency Steering Warning Indicator symbols. The emergency steering system is part of Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA) and is currently found in Hyundai, Kia and Genesis vehicles. The symbols appear much like other collision avoidance system indicators, with one car behind another but with a steering wheel seen above the second vehicle. …
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GMC symbols review finds 13 new entries
GMC symbols A full review of 2025 and 2026 models results in 13 new indicators added to the GMC symbols page. Most of the additions come from the latest Hummer models. The additions bring the page’s indicator count to 94. It’s bound to exceed 100 in another year. The most interesting one is an advance …
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Max Power mode indicator
Max Power mode This is a Max Power Mode Indicator symbol. It belongs to the GMC Sienna electric vehicle (EV), which, when used, adjusts the acceleration pedal “map”. The symbol is a drawing that looks like Thor’s hammer with a lightning bolt inside. Before continuing, is one of these truly your symbol?? If yes, read …
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What to do if a system is accidentally activated
Accidentally activated I accidentally activated Lane Keeping Assist in the Kia Niro a few days ago, inadvertently hitting the button on the steering wheel shown to the right. I soon began to feel the steering wheel resist my attempted movements. Again, I had hit the button inadvertently and had no idea what was going on …
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There’s a new King Crab in town
King Crab GMC‘s Hummer gave us CrabWalk mode, and now adds an enhancement the company calls King Crab mode. In CrabWalk (right), the rear wheels are turned at the same angle as the front wheels, which enables the vehicle to move diagonally. Also, the mode can be engaged at speeds less than 2 km/h (1.2 …
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Emergency steering indicators separated from collision warnings
Emergency steering indicators Our Collision Warning Indicators page had grown to be far too cumbersome for easy navigation. To help ease the page’s congestion, we separated Emergency Steering Indicators (right) and gave them their own page. We had already made separate pages for Rear and Side Collision indicators to facilitate this change. We have also …
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