The light on your control panel: Not for Idiots Anymore

In a simple day, if the engine's oil pressure drops too low you are, your dashboard, or rather, the control panel of your tools, there is a pressure rated oil appears similar Measured pressure reading and a warning light will come on that attracted your attention. After that, some manufacturers have come to appreciate completely, leaving only light 'stupid'. There will be a measure of temperature plus light to alert a driver if the engine temperature rose too high. But now you can not see a rating at all. Meanwhile, the lights 'idiot' has blossomed to the madness. And as a driver, you need to be "road scholar to understand them.

Light 'stupid' or tell stories, because they are known in the industry, is designed to help the driver did not know how to read a review and to get your attention. For those who really know how to read meters, and watch them like a hawk, tell-tales known as the 'idiot' lights. And the term stuck.

However, today's vehicles, can never be a corresponding evaluation to merit a Check Engine light, or light ABS (anti lock braking), or a trouble light drivetrain , or to any of dozens of documents and photographs tell-tales spread throughout the vehicle instrument panel in the last few decades.

Maybe that is 20 or 30 images or text says-the story of a modern instrument panel, each connected to a system in your car. And they can shine in twos and three if a problem is detected. It's a problem with a system caused other systems depends on the first day off. Each of these systems there is a relevant - and now are illuminated - tell-tale. Today, a driver needs to be a genius to know what car is going.

Maybe most troubling about the Prodigy 'lights are one crops up, it indicates a problem or malfunction has occurred. For example, there is no assessment to indicate a change in anti-lock braking system. If problems occur, a story appears. Equally to electronic throttle, the power steering, stability control system, or any other advanced, and often electronic systems.

Thus, a light 'Prodigy' to and the driver is not frustrated genius and was scared of manual recording of their owners for help. Unfortunately, the general answer is "call your dealer." It's really impossible for an average driver to remember the meaning of all the lights, which all too many times, including a system of abbreviations or acronyms. Finally, drivers really feel like 'Idiots' no fault of their own.

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