The engine failure warning light is one of the ones that alerts drivers the most, as it warns of the different problems that arise and that may be more or less serious. A European survey has revealed the great ignorance about this important luminous witness.
The vast majority of new cars have a warning light for failures, which reports the events that have occurred at the moment, and even sends them to the mobile phone. But as soon as the ignition is switched on, a general check of the state of the vehicle is produced, showing a series of indicator lights on the instrument panel.
The events indicated are of a diverse nature, and may be more or less serious, and which are stored in the general switchboard. As a rule, they correspond to a fault in the motor or in the electronics. Its importance is of first level, but there are a series of new witnesses related to hybrids and electricreally unknown, as revealed by a recent survey carried out at European level.
The light witnesses of the HEV and PHEV, under examination
The symbol of a car with the final exclamation point indicates a fault related to the traction batteries, in the electric motor or in the wiring in the HEV, PHEV and electric. Well, nothing less than 80 percent of the two thousand participants do not know its meaning. This warning light can light up orange allowing driving or red, which will stop driving and will not start again. In fact, it is advised not to do it, because you can cause greater damage about the fault that has already occurred.
If you do, you can have serious warranty issues -if it is valid- and, even with all-risk insurance. The survey has also revealed that 77 percent of Europeans do not know which is the warning light that warns of the activation of cruise control, a much more common system and that it is not at all unknown. In the case of hybrids, 60 percent are unaware of the icon showing the change from combustion to electric mode.
Some electric or plug-in hybrid models even show a tortoise witness, an indication that you do not have enough battery power to move, and that it can also be a consequence of a possible failure in the system. The survey indicates that 59 percent do not know this witness either. The only perfectly recognizable symbol for 99.1% of those surveyed is from a gasoline pump lit yellow.
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