Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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

Vauxhall update begun with symbols page color color re-arrangement

Vauxhall update We’ve begun an overdue Vauxhall update with a re-arrangement of the symbols page. We’ve also discovered many changes will be needed to the open and start pages. Why? Because it has been nearly five years since we first put the page up! There will likely be a very large symbols update as a …

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Unusual abbreviation added to the acronyms and abbreviations page

Acronyms and abbreviations We have a unusual new entry on our acronyms and abbreviations and abbreviations page: TDA (Trailer Drive Assist). Unusual because the system, from Toyota, uses no less than seven driving assist systems in the vehicle to aid with towing control, and does not have its own indicator. When active, it uses the …

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Ram symbols page update is complete

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Ram Symbols Our Ram symbols page update is finished. Despite there being only four basic models, the update added nearly 40 warning lights, symbols and indicators. The page now holds over 110 images. Fortunately, of the additions, only nine were actually new to our collection. And those were generally simple rearrangements of existing symbols. For …

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New color treatment added to our Land Rover symbols page

Land Rover symbols A re-arrangement of the Land Rover symbols page by color is complete. We finished the creation of the Porsche page, which was admittedly a bear, and thought we’d take a break from our European pages and update a simpler one, Ram. The company offers only four vehicles and already we’ve added 26 …

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Porsche symbols page is now up

Cruise Control Indicator Symbol

Porsche Symbols Our Porsche symbols page is at last finished and posted. It is automatically fully updated through 2025, but it the process, we added 32 warning symbols and indicators that were not previously in our system. As is more often than not the case, the majority of the symbols are simply unnecessary re-arrangements of …

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Porsche Dashboard Symbols and Warning Lights

Porsche Dashboard Symbols So, what is that light on your dashboard? What follows is easily the most complete list available of symbols and warnings that may appear in and on a Porsche dashboard or instrument cluster. The following are warning lights, fault lights and indicators found in vehicles built by Porsche. Click the link to …

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Porsche stability management makes for a new entry on our abbreviation

Porsche stability management Manufacturers are in love with the idea of creating new names for existing systems. But Porsche takes this to the highest level, putting the company name on systems, in this case Porsche Stability Management (PSM). This of course, turns out to be nothing more than stability control, which — thankfully — uses …

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