Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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

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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Porsche manuals hold many more indicators in text

Porsche manuals We discovered a source for Porsche manuals and embarked on updating the Porsche dashboard symbols page. It was then that we discovered that we had never put up a symbols page for the company. So, we’re building one using the manuals that are now available and in the process we discovered that Porsche …

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Egress warning indicator

Egress warning

Egress Warning This is an Egress Warning Indicator symbol. It appears as a vehicle seen from above with an open door and two curved lines outside of the door. Its the warning, from Porsche, makes occupants of a vehicle when the stationary aware of road users, such as cars, motorcycles, or bicycles approaching from behind. …

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Catalytic converter heating phase indicator symbol

Catalytic converter heating phase indicator

Catalytic converter This is a Catalytic Converter Heating Phase Indicator symbol. It tells the driver that the converter has not yet had time to warm up. We’ve seen this only in Porsche vehicles. Torque is reduced during the heating phase and the symbol goes out as soon as the catalytic converters have reached operating temperature. …

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