You Have Got to be F*cking Kidding Me...

"Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen" (sportwagen) 10/30/2014 at 00:47 • Filed to: WTF

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! so I clicked it (you know, because clickbait) and was shocked to realize that many people would literally have no idea what half of those lights meant...

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...we are doomed as an automobile loving society :'(

Have an S2 Coupe for your time...

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 00:50

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Two out of our three vehicles have check engines lights on. Who is your God now AOL? AND ONE EVEN HAS A TP LIGHT ON. The biggest scam/gimmick of the modern automotive world, the TPMS, built to fail.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 00:51

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it should be mandatory for people to read the damn owner's manual.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 10/30/2014 at 01:06

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My mom's van gets lit up with TPMS warnings when it's cold outside, and unless it's driven a long distance, it still won't warm the tires up enough.

promoted by the color red > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 01:07

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The people who read autos.aol.com are not necessarily the same folk who shop for E30s.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 10/30/2014 at 01:10

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My Dad's truck's just tend to fail.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 01:34

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I would hardly call a TPM lighta serious safety issue, that's why it's yellow and not red. Red means stop driving, yellow means get it checked out at your earliest convenience. I wouldn't be surprised if now people with battery lights go pay someone to replace their battery only to find out the light is on because the alternator has failed. As for overheating, this article makes it sound like it would be fine to just go ahead and keep driving, all the way to whatever shop you choose, while overheating. Actually, yeah, do that, I will happily take thousands of dollars from you to fix your broken shit. Because stupid-tax.

Rainbow > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 01:59

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To be fair, the brake one is the most confusing. The tire pressure one is a cutaway of a tire with its sidewalls bubbled out, and that's really easy to see, so I don't understand why so many people are confused by it. And the others... you'd have to be an idiot not to be able to decipher them by the picture alone. But the brakes one.... it's a circle. That really doesn't help.

Luckily, my car just says "BRAKES" instead, so everyone can understand.

Rainbow > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 10/30/2014 at 02:01

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My dad's car has had a tire pressure light consistently for several months. I'm starting to think that the light will only go off if there's ever a real problem with the tires.

KirkyV > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 08:33

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We're taught a fair few of these - obviously, plenty of cars don't have TPMS and so on - while learning to drive where I live. I'll admit, though, that I didn't realise the handbrake light could also indicate a brake failure.

There is a decent chance that my car doesn't even have a brake failure sensor, come to think of it...

twochevrons > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 10/30/2014 at 08:37

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Not only that, this one is (almost) completely wrong.

I really like the way that Citroën handled warning lights (and maybe still do, I don't know). Any 'critical' warning light – temperature, alternator, brakes, oil pressure and the like, would also light up a large "STOP" light, making it completely unambiguous as to what you should do.

twochevrons > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 10/30/2014 at 08:43

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In theory, I think that TPMS is a good idea – after all, your average Joe probably never checks his tire pressures, and the resultant effect on fuel economy (and safety) would be pretty substantial over a large number of vehicles. But the whole sensor-in-valve-stem thing is entirely stupid.

My wife's VW has TPMS with no sensors, though. Instead, it uses the ABS to monitor the rotation speed of each wheel, and lights up the warning light if there is any long-term inconsistency between them. Sure, it won't catch if they all go low at the same time, but in any other cases, it works just as well as the sensors, without all the hassle.

twochevrons > Rainbow 10/30/2014 at 08:44

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My folks had a minivan with a fuel light like that. For some reason, it would stay on all the time, and then the one time that we did run it low, the light went off!