Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

DashboardSymbols.com descriptions of the symbols and tell-tales used on automobile and light truck dashboards and instrument panels.

Off road auxiliary lighting active indicator

Off road auxiliary lighting This is an Off Road Auxiliary Lighting Active Indicator symbol. It appears in some Ford models…

3 days ago

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…

6 days ago

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)…

2 weeks ago

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…

2 weeks ago

Max Power mode indicator

Max Power mode This is a Max Power Mode Indicator symbol. It belongs to the GMC Sienna electric vehicle (EV),…

2 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

EPA ends credits for auto start/stop systems — too many reports feature the wrong system

Auto start/stop The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a new rule finalized in February 2026 that eliminates all…

3 weeks ago

Hyundai symbols review brings 16 new indicators to the page

Hyundai symbols A thorough review of 2026 models results in the addition of 16 new warning lights and indicators to…

4 weeks ago

Warning light pairs force page, post and table changes

Warning light pairs While updating the symbols page for Hyundai, we have run headlong into a set of warning light…

4 weeks ago