Author Topic: Do You Know What This Symbol Means? (Read 2437 times)

TheStig · « **on:** August 18, 2010, 10:28:00 PM »

Do You Know What This Symbol Means?

Do you recognize the symbol here? It lights up in your instrument panel and looks like a U-shaped pictograph with treads and an exclamation point in the middle.

Do you understand what it means now?

If you guessed a low tire-pressure warning, you are right. If you didn’t recognize the symbol, that’s also understandable because one out of three drivers do not, according to Schrader, a company that makes tire pressure monitoring systems.

The issue here seems to be that the public hasn’t been properly educated on the warning symbol, which is supposed to be “idiot proof” and understandable across a wide variety of cultures and languages. Yet 46% of drivers couldn’t figure out that the icon represents a tire and 14% thought the symbol represented another problem with the vehicle entirely, according to Schrader.

Properly inflated tires are vitally important to your safety. Low pressure will affect your braking, acceleration, stability, cornering and fuel economy. The government instituted the TPMS mandate after the Bridgestone/Firestone tire failures on the Ford Explorer in 2000, a controversy that was partly attributed to inadequately inflated tires.

Punjabi Janta Forums - Janta Di Pasand · « **on:** August 18, 2010, 10:28:00 PM »

Jioavtar · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2010, 12:35:58 AM »

eh ta kise raje da mukkad lag da

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Rubbie · « **Reply #2 on:** August 19, 2010, 12:55:09 AM »

Thanks ....even i was also one ...who didnt know about this :wait:

Ķιℓℓα Ķαuя · « **Reply #3 on:** August 19, 2010, 01:14:00 AM »

hahaha i knew about this one ..but i remember the first time my mom saw it she described it as... "colts(football team) de symbol warga a" lol

¢υтє_ρυηנαвαη · « **Reply #4 on:** August 19, 2010, 02:18:06 AM »

I would be one of the 46%.. X_X

_Beast_ · « **Reply #5 on:** August 19, 2010, 01:21:53 PM »

And now I know :happy:

TheStig · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2010, 07:40:07 PM »

honestly mai aah sign kade dekhya nahi si

_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #7 on:** August 25, 2010, 02:57:01 PM »

hmm, never seen it, at least not in my car :pagel:

Is it implemented in the newer models? =/

TheStig · « **Reply #8 on:** August 25, 2010, 07:06:30 PM »

not in any of my cars

Kudrat Kaur · « **Reply #9 on:** August 25, 2010, 07:51:18 PM »

Vekhia Vekhia tah Lagda.. :wait: :wait: mein ajj thoda dhyan naal check kardi aa je mil gaya fer dassu :happy:

TheStig · « **Reply #10 on:** August 25, 2010, 07:56:53 PM »

Quote from: KUDRAT GREWAL on August 25, 2010, 07:51:18 PM

Vekhia Vekhia tah Lagda.. :wait: :wait: mein ajj thoda dhyan naal check kardi aa je mil gaya fer dassu :happy:

mere hisab naal eh new cars ch hona chahida.. ya suv's de wich

҂ ȿḉặᵰɗἷἧäѷїѧҋ↔ᶀɍǐȶĩṧӊ ₰ · « **Reply #11 on:** September 14, 2010, 06:38:56 PM »

Oh nah i didn't guess it right.