{"id":5924,"date":"2015-07-02T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T07:08:41","slug":"those-signs-on-the-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/those-signs-on-the-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Signs On The Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that you have to learn when you buy a new car is what all the information displayed on the dashboard is what all the warning lights mean. In the cars I remember from my childhood, like the old Mitsubishi <\/a>Sigma station-wagon my dad let me steer down the driveway, and the Simca that was the first car I owned, there were only a few warning lights: usually the fuel light.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s cars have many more sensors and information systems to let you know just about everything that\u2019s going on with its inner workings. This information is usually presented to you via a little light on your dashboard. But these little lights don\u2019t (or usually don\u2019t) come right out and say something intelligible and straightforward like \u201cFog lights not working\u201d or \u201cEngine about to explode\u201d. This is because the car was probably designed by Germans, built by Chinese, intended for Brits and sold to Aussies. Just as well, or these information lights might end up with classic examples of Chinglish along the lines of \u201cLanterns for use when soft cloud sleeping on ground not happy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Here, then, is a guide to what they mean\u2026or at least what they look like they mean In the diagrams below, the numbers refer to the columns and the capital letters to the rows<\/p>\n

Figure I:<\/p>\n