Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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

Charge Door Open Failure Indicator

Charge door failure indicator

Charge door This is a Charge Door Open Failure Indicator symbol. It will be seen in the case of a failure of the high voltage battery charge door electric opening. This light, which does resemble a door and an electric plug if it is stared at long enough, should also, fortunately, be accompanied by a …

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Electronic Differential (e-DIFF) Fault Indicator

Electronic differential indicator

Electronic Differential This is an Electronic Differential Fault indicator symbol. Seen as the abbreviation E-DIFF, it indicates a fault in the electronic limited-slip differential, which has an electrically engaged clutch on the differential. Before continuing, is one of these truly your symbol?? If yes, read on below. Otherwise, you can return to our main Manufacturer …

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Skoda symbols page update is now done

Skoda symbols Similar to our recent Audi update, a very long Skoda symbols update is at last over. We added exactly 50 new symbols and indicators to the page, with over half of them (26) new to our database. There are now 130 warning symbols and indicators on the Skoda page. We haven’t done a …

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As others have done, Skoda swells the drive modes page

Drive modes We just added another five brand new entries to our drive mode page. That page now holds 85 entries. Mind you, not a single one of the five is an actual new driving mode. There’s normal and sport and ECO, etc. Which means of course that a symbol, or multiples of them, were …

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Lane change page swells yet again

Lane indicator

Lane change With the addition of three new symbols from Skoda, our Lane Departure and Lane Change Assist page now sports a total of 61 indicators! The symbols, all carrying at least the color green, are part of the company’s Travel Assist system, and more specifically for these indicators, Lane Guidance. All green indicates that …

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Adaptive cruise control not decelerating sufficiently indicator

Step on the brake indicator

Decelerating This is an Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Not Decelerating Sufficiently Indicator symbol. It is a recycled symbol, now seen in red, usually used to indicate that the brake pedal must be pressed to change gears, but in a different color. Before continuing, is one of these truly your symbol?? If yes, read on below. …

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Has Skoda solved my issue with the charge system warning light?

Charge system warning Just a few months ago, I ran a piece that was essentially a complaint about the industry’s use of the charge system warning light. While it is made to look like a battery, the light “fails” to warn of a fault in the battery itself. In the piece, I recounted three instances …

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