It’s sometimes difficult to find your way around the dashboard of your car as there are so many pictograms. If, normally, we pay little attention to them when they are off, it is when one of them starts to light up that we must start to worry, or even stop immediately. Current wife enlightens you on their role and functioning.
Red lights on the dashboard: stop the vehicle immediately!
Fortunately, there is a visual cue to quickly identify warning lights for major issues affecting your vehicle. Bright red in color, they are called warning lights. There are about a dozen of them, these warning lights require your car to stop immediately. In effect, they highlight a problem that makes driving theoretically impossible. If some of them are due to simple negligence on the part of the driver or a passenger (hood, trunk or doors open, seat belt not fastened), others indicate a mechanical problem that must be treated immediately or risk failure: flat battery charge, dry engine oil, gasoline or brake fluid level, failure of the transmission, anti-theft device, power steering or braking, etc. In one of these In this case, we stop immediately to carry out the repair before being able to return to the road in complete safety.
Orange lights: repair as quickly as possible
Most of the other lights are orange in color. These warning lights are supposed to reveal a car malfunction that should be taken seriously, but do not require an immediate shutdown of your vehicle. Most of the time, they indicate advanced wear of a part (brake pads, tire pressure or wear, low fuel, oil or AdBlue level on diesel vehicles, etc.) or warn you a high risk of breakdown of a component that must soon be changed (ABS, airbag, ESP, etc.).