Low Brake Pad Warning Lights

Low Brake Pad This a Low Brake Pad warning light. Some vehicle manufacturers include this symbol, which is intended to notify you that your vehicle’s brake pads are worn, or low, and need servicing. The dashed lines are meant to represent the pads themselves, with the circle representing the brake disk. Your brakes may also …

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Tire Pressure Monitoring System Dashboard Indicators

Tire pressure warning highlight indicator

Tire Pressure Monitor This is the Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) or Tire Pressure Monitor (TPM) warning light symbol. It is also used as Flat Tire Monitor (FTM), which seems redundant. The tell-tale comes on when the inflation on at least one of the tires is reduced about 25% or more. In most cases, that …

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Antilock Braking System Dashboard Trouble Lights

Antilock Brakes This text symbol, ABS, stands for Antilock Braking System. The second symbol is the Canadian version, and those that follow below are older versions. The ABS system helps to keep the car from skidding out of control during braking in slippery or extreme braking conditions by limiting your wheels from locking up. But first, …

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Charging System Dashboard Trouble Lights

Charge System One of the original “idiot” lights, the symbol to the left indicates a serious problem with the Charging System. The vehicle should be brought to a complete stop as quickly as possible or the vehicle may simply stop running in the middle of traffic. Roadside assistance will be necessary. But, before we continue, …

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Brake Trouble Dashboard Symbols

Electronically Controlled Brake Warning

Brake Trouble This symbol, and the Canadian version below, is a Brake Trouble Indicator symbol. Either symbol could indicate a serious problem with the brakes, but the light will also be on when the hand, or emergency, brake is engaged. But first, is one of these truly your symbol?? If yes, then continue on below.  …

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And The Dashboard Symbols Saga Continues

Frost Warning Indicator

A Manufacturer Update Adds Yet More Symbols In an earlier post, the Dashboard Symbols Saga, some weeks ago, we noted that we now host 986 warning lights and indicators. Nine hundred and eighty six! Well, we updated our Buick page, and added yet another five new symbols, bringing the total to 991 (now over 1000!). …

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Recall Targets Tesla Typefaces

Letter to transportation secretary

What Size Type? Way back in 2012, we noted in a post linked here that a group at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was doing a study on typefaces that would mitigate driver distraction. That is, typefaces that would be the least distracting. And while it was a time where there was a lot …

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