DashboardSymbols.com descriptions of the symbols and tell-tales used on automobile and light truck dashboards and instrument panels.
Battery conditioning. These are electric vehicle (EV) Battery Conditioning Mode Indicator symbols. One or the other will be seen when the EV’s high-voltage battery is set to pre-condition its temperature prior to DC charging. Before continuing, is one of these truly your symbol?? If yes, read on below. Otherwise, you can return to our main …
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Speed assist. While finishing the update of the Ford symbols page — which has added dozens of entries by the way — we came across a pair of new predictive speed assist indicators. And rather than add them to the already bloated Active and Advanced Cruise Control page, we pulled six existing symbols from the …
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Speed assist. These are Predictive Speed Assist Indicator symbols. This pair are from Ford and are a large part of Advanced and Adaptive Cruise Control Systems. They are shown as curved arrows, either left or right. They go from gray to blue as speed is adjusted. Before continuing, is one of these truly your symbol?? …
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Trailer Lighting This is a Trailer Lighting Fault indicator symbol used on some Volvo vehicles. It points strictly to an issue with the lighting. Be sure to do a thorough check of the wiring connections before continuing on your way. Before continuing, is this truly your symbol?? If yes, read on below. Otherwise, you can …
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Turbo boost This is a Turbocharger indicator symbol. It comes courtesy of the Ford Bronco, which does not specify a color or a reason for it to be lit. But it is associated with a Boost Gauge, and we then learned it is seen in white. Before continuing, is one of these truly your symbol?? …
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Terrain assist Similar to our recent Drive Mode Page improvements, we’ve made significant changes to our Terrain Assist indicators page, the result of which is a far simpler and more navigable page. To accomplish this, we created a new Hill Start Assist indicator page and a new Grade Assist indicator page. In effect, the first …
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Big symbols update for Ford is finished — at last
Ford symbols update. We’ve been working on a Ford dashboard symbols update for Ford for several weeks and it is finally finished. In total, we added 34 indicators to the page, with a full 22 actually new to our database. Way too many of them are drive mode indicators. The Ford symbol page now holds …
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