Warning lights, how many can you get right?

Warning lights, how many can you get right?

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Type R Tom

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3,912 posts

150 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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From the Mail today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381805/Wa...



The answers:

1. Car horn 2. Oil pressure warning 3. Brake/handbrake warning 4. ABS warning 5. Battery warning 6. Engine warning 7. Hazard warning 8. Engine overheat/coolant warning 9. Airbag warning 10. Seat belt warning 11. Main beam 12. Low fuel warning 13. Front fog light 14. Windscreen washer 15. Windscreen defrost 16. Rear window defrost 17. Parking brake light 18. Tyre pressure warning 19. Power steering warning 20. Start-stop indicator 21. Press clutch pedal light 22. Press brake pedal light 23. Direction indicators 24. Rear fog light 25. Diesel particulate filter warning 26. Water in fuel filter warning 27. Automatic gear box warning 28. Brake pad warning 29. Cruise control warning/info 30. Bulb monitoring/fault warning 31. Glow plug/diesel pre-heat warning 32. Service required or fault/problem 33. Stability control (also known as ESC, ESP, ASR or DTC) warning

There were a few I got wrong, my car isn't that complicated!

mattshiz

461 posts

142 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Having never owned a modern car or a diesel or an automatic a lot of those were foreign to me. Got all the ones that I should have known though!

Frances The Mute

1,816 posts

242 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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26. Water in fuel warning.

That's a new one on me.

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

266 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Frances The Mute said:
26. Water in fuel warning.

That's a new one on me.
It's the only one I got wrong.

Herbs

4,916 posts

230 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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20,21 & 22 were the only ones I didn't get. I never realised I knew so much hehe

curlie467

7,650 posts

202 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Not a friggin clue what the stop start/brake pedal/clutch pedal ones were, nor the water in the fuel one.

backwoodsman

2,470 posts

130 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Captain Muppet said:
Frances The Mute said:
26. Water in fuel warning.

That's a new one on me.
It's the only one I got wrong.
Only one I got wrong too.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,274 posts

236 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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9 is beware of bubble gum

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,274 posts

236 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Why would you have a warning light for car horn? Does it light up when you toot?

Big Fat Fatty

3,303 posts

157 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Who knows what car it is or has it just been made up?

My car doesn't have most of them and the ones it does I've never seen.

RDMcG

19,209 posts

208 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Got all of them apart from the diesel ones

FourWheelDrift

88,628 posts

285 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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1. Beware of Jazz players.
7. Beware of Predators.
14. Squirt water on people behind you with misaligned water washers.
19. Don't forget to turn steering wheel when driving.
31 Snake warning.
33 Drive erratically.

Buff Mchugelarge

3,316 posts

151 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Either way, that cars fked

DCLXIV

361 posts

136 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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Daily Fail said:
WARNING LIGHT / PERCENTAGE OF DRIVERS WHO GOT IT WRONG

Fog Light / 58%
That explains a lot.

petrolsniffer

2,461 posts

175 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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What french car is that out of? laugh

B17NNS

18,506 posts

248 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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2. Run out of gravy.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,274 posts

236 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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8. Beware of the moustache

DoctorX

7,314 posts

168 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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I've never had a car with a horn warning light. Is that for deaf people?

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

212 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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31. Alton Towers proximity detector.
33. E21 ahead.

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

256 months

Wednesday 31st July 2013
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DoctorX said:
I've never had a car with a horn warning light. Is that for deaf people?
I was thinking the same thing, never seen one either confused

This sign needs to be added to my wifes car, and it would illuminate about a week after I have spent an entire day cleaning it: