Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

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Pontiac symbols page gets the new color treatment

Pontiac symbols page Our Pontiac symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect a color ordering. As a testament to the growth of technology and the accompanying indicators, the Pontiac holds just over 40 symbols. The majority of manufacturers have this number …

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BMW symbols page gets the new color treatment

BMW symbols page Our BMW symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect the new color ordering. The page feature more than 80 indicators, now ordered red through white, which generally provides a “mostly serious” to “simply letting you know” range. We …

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Oldsmobile symbols page now color coded

Oldsmobile symbols page Our Oldsmobile symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect a color ordering. Oldsmobile as a manufacturer has been defunct since 2004. Nevertheless, we will keep the page for drivers of the cars who likely have few places to …

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Boy did we mess up our primary picture symbols page!

Primary picture symbols page Its repaired now, but we managed to completely screw up the transformation of our primary picture symbols page! A whole lot of original coding somehow stuck from its previous iteration. It might be obvious to those viewing the page, which is here, that the symbols are arranged in tables. Well, somehow …

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Our primary picture symbols page has been completely transformed

Primary picture symbols page We just completed the transformation of our primary picture symbols page. It now moves through picture symbols by color, red, yellow/amber/orange (depending on how a driver sees the color), on to green and blue and finally black and white and gray scale indicators. We kept three other sub-groups on the page …

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Primary picture symbols page to get a gray scale table

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Primary picture symbols page In order to fully transform our primary picture symbols page, we needed a table of gray scale indicators. Or more properly, black and white and gray scale indicators. The page currently uses tables of various categories of indicators that, due to shear numbers — over 800 entries — has become impossible …

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Nissan symbols page now color coded

Nissan symbols page The Nissan symbols page is now the second to be aligned by color. We started what is big change on the site with Infiniti, and thought it would be most appropriate to finish the “family”. The Nissan page features over 90 entries, about 20 more the Infiniti page. This added a degree …

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