Which Warning Light ? We have an answer!!
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Which Warning Light ? We have an answer!!
Hi folks. No replies, have I found the unanswerable question?![}:)]
Occasionally while waiting for the heater plugs timer light to go out (ie when starting) on my ZX TD another light comes on briefly, and it's not in the handbook!
It's orange (I think, goes out just as I notice it), under the speedo and is a flattened, horizontal oval over two horizontal lines. I thought it might be airbag but there's one on the steering wheel for that.
Occasionally while waiting for the heater plugs timer light to go out (ie when starting) on my ZX TD another light comes on briefly, and it's not in the handbook!
It's orange (I think, goes out just as I notice it), under the speedo and is a flattened, horizontal oval over two horizontal lines. I thought it might be airbag but there's one on the steering wheel for that.
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No replies, have I found the unanswerable question?!
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No, thats the 'Alien Spacecraft Approaching' warning light, we just didn't want to scare you........[:D]
Nick
No replies, have I found the unanswerable question?!
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No, thats the 'Alien Spacecraft Approaching' warning light, we just didn't want to scare you........[:D]
Nick
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Funny as it sounds but I think it's the light that is meant as a warning aid when towing [?]. Some where in the back of my mind I remember it comes on when the electrics to the 'caravan' or trailer have been disconected. It could be a sign of a earth fault in the rear electrics starting to come on. Dose it have a sort of lighting flash inside the squashed oval?
OR!!!
You have been singled out as earth embassador for alien encounters [:D][:D]
OR!!!
You have been singled out as earth embassador for alien encounters [:D][:D]
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Ok very funny guys!
Nick, I assume from the time of your post you were up waiting for a 'visitation'. I'm not scared by aliens I have a teenager living in the house.
Stuart, I don't think the car has ever has a towbar fitted but I'll investigate further. It's preferable to the developing ET alternative!
Tom, no comment.
If anyone out there has a spare instrument panel or is doing the fairly regulaer bulb replacement job soon perhaps they could shine a torch through from the back & see what illuminates.......hopefully an answer.
Nanu Nanu earthlings.
Nick, I assume from the time of your post you were up waiting for a 'visitation'. I'm not scared by aliens I have a teenager living in the house.
Stuart, I don't think the car has ever has a towbar fitted but I'll investigate further. It's preferable to the developing ET alternative!
Tom, no comment.
If anyone out there has a spare instrument panel or is doing the fairly regulaer bulb replacement job soon perhaps they could shine a torch through from the back & see what illuminates.......hopefully an answer.
Nanu Nanu earthlings.
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Right, had a look through some auto manuals. Nothing quite like what you say you've seen but I can say if it's orange then it's a 'telling you to check some thing' light not a 'watch out I'm about to break down' light. Sounds like it could be either an ABS light but this has the lightening strike through it or low brake fluid.
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We never saw this model on this side of the World but I did own a Mazda diesel for a few years and I'm sure it had a warning something like that (it was orange anyway) if water got into one of the filters. On them you had a metal cylinder type fuel filter as well as a glass one; the glass one had a kind of tap arrangement on the bottom that was opened to drain out any water that it caught in the system, based on the principle that the water would drop to the bottom & the diesel fuel float to the top.
Any chance this could be something similar??
Alan S
Any chance this could be something similar??
Alan S
Have some more data for you earthlings. The light came on as I pulled onto my drive yesterday, and remained on. It,s red & positioned just to the right of the light which falls below the bottom centre of the speedo.
Nick, I think you are on the right track. the lines are indeed wavey as is the bottom of the oval I described. Also there is a 'T' on the top of the oval. The light went of when I revved the engine & returned on tickover. Will check some levels today & see what's what.
Live long & prosper.
Nick, I think you are on the right track. the lines are indeed wavey as is the bottom of the oval I described. Also there is a 'T' on the top of the oval. The light went of when I revved the engine & returned on tickover. Will check some levels today & see what's what.
Live long & prosper.