Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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

Jaguar symbols page now sports the color re-set

Jaguar symbols As we continue an update of Land Rover back-up entry and start processes as well as its dashboard symbols page, we have re-ordered sister company Jaguar symbols page by color. That’s now 45 of our 49 symbols pages re-set, and it sure is tempting to polish them all off. We expect that what …

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Opel symbols page update is finished

Speed limiter

Opel Symbols Our Opel symbols page update is now complete, an update that added 15 warning lights, symbols and/or indicators. The page now holds over 140 images. Of the additions, only 5 are actually new to our collection. The company uses many of the same symbols employed by sister company Vauxhall. Not surprisingly, Opel is …

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Tesla symbols page has now been re-ordered by color

Tesla Symbols While we finish up the update of the Opel symbols page, we took a time out to re-order our Tesla symbols page by color. A full 44 of our 49 symbols pages, or 90%, have now been re-set. Cybertruck has been released since we last updated the Tesla page and both the Model …

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Semi-adaptive cruise control indicator

Semi-adaptive cruise We are in the process of updating our Opel dashboard symbols page, and ran across an odd item: Semi-adaptive Cruise Control. It, of course has a slightly different indicator symbol, because why not, but we had to dig in to understand why it is semi-adaptive. We don’t see a difference, except in the …

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The update of our Vauxhall symbols page is finished

Vauxhall Symbols Our Vauxhall symbols page update is now complete, an update that added over 20 warning lights, symbols and/or indicators. The page now holds nearly 150 images. Of the additions, a full 13 are actually new to our collection. And some are a surprise to those of us in North America. Vauxhall is the …

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Active emergency braking indicator

Active emergency braking indicator

Emergency braking This is an Active Emergency Braking Indicator symbol. It will be seen in yellow/amber/orange if the system has been deactivated or if a fault has been detected. Further, a warning message is displayed in the driver information center. It appears as a car with two lines behind it inside the traditional symbol for …

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Passenger airbag activated indicator

Passenger airbag activated

Airbag activated This is a front Passenger Airbag Activated Indicator symbol. It is seen in yellow/amber/orange when the passenger airbag is active and available to inflate in the event of an collision and appears as a child in a child seat on a regular seat in a circle. Before continuing, is this truly your symbol?? …

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