Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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

We’ve now made Symbols by Manufacturer our main symbols page

Symbols by manufacturer For some time now, we’ve recommended searching our symbols by manufacturer pages as the most effective way of finding what our visitors needs. Well, we finally swapped that page in to be the main symbols page. The process of rearranging all our pages by color put the issue front and center. In …

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Another owner’s manual fail, this time from Kia

Kia owner’s manual fail Well, we’ve found another. A few weeks ago we reported on the discovery that Mazda had begun leaving instrument panel indicators out of the list found in the owner’s manual. Now we find that Kia has done the same thing, this time in my Niro EV! I’ve found two sets of …

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Smart Regenerative System Indicators

Auto regenerative brake indicator

Smart Regenerative System These images are Smart Regenerative System indicator symbols. The system is from Kia and uses the front radar to not only control the distance to a vehicle ahead but also to adjust the amount of regenerative braking is applied. Regenerative braking is found in electric vehicles (EVs) and uses the vehicle’s electric …

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Infiniti symbols page has now been re-ordered by color

Infiniti symbols page Our Infiniti symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed well over a dozen pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect the new color ordering. The page features a number of indicators that reach well over 80, now ordered red through yellow/orange/amber (depending on how you interpret …

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Subaru symbols page is now in color order

Subaru symbols page In advance of a full update, we have re-ordered the Subaru symbols page by color. We’ve have been doing this with all our dashboard symbols pages over the last several weeks, including our main dashboard symbols page. The process for the Subaru page is now complete. We’ve have now transformed over a …

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Got the car wash blues

Car wash So I took the Kia EV for its second car wash since becoming its owner and ended up stuck with the Park Brake warning light on. So the question is why? I slid into the car wash’s track and placed the car in neutral, as one should. But, I had forgotten that I …

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Symbol update increase the auto dimming indicators to 14

Headlamp Malfunction 2

Auto dimming indicators The Auto Dimming indicators page on our website now holds 14 different symbols. We added another malfunction indicator to what is formally known as the Automatic Headlight Dimmer and Malfunction Symbols page, which now has no less than three malfunction versions. The addition came via our recent Mazda update. Their version is …

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