Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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

Lexus symbols page now fully updated

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Lexus symbols It was a slog, but the Lexus symbols page update is at long last finished. We added 28 symbols and indicators to a page that already featured more than 100. Seventeen of those additions are brand new. To date, only Ford has required more additions, coming in at 75. There are now over …

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12-volt battery warning light needs a serious upgrade

Charge system trouble indicator

Battery Warning Light EV start batteries I ran across a story from Inside EVs involving a Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle (EV) 12-volt start battery failure that also failed to produce any battery warning light. The owner stepped out of her running vehicle leaving an infant inside and the car simply died. The car locked itself …

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Our Skoda dashboard symbols page has now been re-ordered by color

Skoda dashboard symbols We are in the middle of a Lexus update, but we took a break to re-align our Skoda dashboard symbols page by color. That makes 36 pages transformed to reflect the new color ordering, including our primary pictographic symbols page. We are more than three fourths of the way through the reordering …

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Lexus dashboard symbols page has now been color coded

Lexus dashboard symbols In advance of a 2025 update, now underway, our Lexus dashboard symbols page has now been re-aligned by color. That makes 35 pages transformed to reflect the new color ordering, including our primary pictographic symbols page. This exceeds now three fourths of the pages to be re-ordered, while we work our way …

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Australian manual site found to replace a more restrictive UK site

Open owner's manual

Australian manual site Our recent Suzuki dashboard symbols update had us scrambling for owner’s manuals and an Australian manual site was just the ticket. We keep a page of website links to owner’s manuals for the convenience of our viewers, and Suzuki offers a challenge. The company does not sell autos into the North American …

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Acronyms page gets three new entries

Acronyms page The Fiat dashboard symbols update resulted in three new entries for our acronyms page. However, only one is truly new. For instance, the acronym for Active Speed Limiter (ASL) was added to the existing ASL, Automatic Speed Limiter. The acronym for Traffic Sign Assist (TSA) is already in use for Trailer Stability Assist. …

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Fiat dashboard symbols page update nets 33 new entries

Fiat dashboard symbols A completed Fiat dashboard symbols page update added an astonishing 33 new symbols and indicators. And 11 of them are new to our site. Why astonishing? Because Fiat sells a single model, the 500e, into the North American market! All but one of the additions are variations of existing symbols and many …

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