Do You Know What This Symbol Means?

Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu · 2010-08-17T23:29:52+00:00

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 didnt recognize the symbol, thats also understandable because one out of three drivers do not, according to Schrader, a company that makes tire pressure monitoring systems. MORE AT CARS.COM » Kicking Tires, the blog for car buyers » Car questions answered by the experts The warning for the TPMS lights up when one or more of your vehicles tires is 25% below the manufacturers recommended pressure. The system is now required on all vehicles starting with the 2008 model year. The issue here seems to be that the public hasnt 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 couldnt figure out that the icon represents a tire and 14% thought the symbol represented another problem with the vehicle entirely, according to Schrader. As we said earlier in the week, 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. Source: Do You Know What This Symbol Means?- Yahoo! Autos Article Page

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Start date Aug 18, 2010

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