Orange Triangle Light with Exclamation Point help...like the one marking this thread!

[Phrog]

Hey Dubhead - please continue to post away. Regular readers of this
Forum know to ignore JRL's frequent childish rants.

[Dubhead]

Hey Dubhead - please continue to post away. Regular readers of this
Forum know to ignore JRL's frequent childish rants.

No worries there...as I said before, it would take a lot to get me upset in an online forum. I am pretty easy-going about accepting my short-comings when it comes to attention to detail. I multitask way to much, to the point of being ineffective and tend to forget important details so it goes with what I have or haven't done with my auto. I actually appreciate the fervent scolding sometimes because at the very least it indicates someone is at least passionate about something enough to write a discourse (or sharp discourse as it were).

So to summarize...we can all agree that the indicator in the dash is nothing more than a signal to check for messages....period. It is not related to a particular type of message or otherwise, just messages from some codes that were tripped. Does that sound good?

Cheers!
~Dubhead

[colin]

we can all agree that the indicator in the dash is nothing more than a signal to check for messages....period.

Almost. The light will be amber for most messages but for more severe ones it will be red.

[VICIII]

Your bedside manner never ceases to amaze me - totally rude and out of line.

No not really.....
Think of him as our "Simon" from American Idol....

[skibo]

Almost. The light will be amber for most messages but for more severe ones it will be red.

Yes - like if a door is open, it shows red. I love the way it can be either yellow or red - I'm easily amused by little details like that.

[pelagikos]

It's not necessarily severity of the problem, but rather whether the car is allowed to be driven or not, as Volvo perceives it.

Red - risk of hurting self or passengers (example - open doors), or blowing up the engine (example low coolant). Both of the sample issues can be easily solved with little or no effort.

Yellow - OK to drive (or limp for that matter). If your transmission is going it's Yellow (I think), while it can be very expensive to repair, the probability of making things much worse by driving is low, so the light is Yellow.

[slowflyer]

Yellow - OK to drive (or limp for that matter). If your transmission is going it's Yellow (I think), while it can be very expensive to repair, the probability of making things much worse by driving is low, so the light is Yellow.

I am pretty sure (but not 100%) that it was red when we got the urgent message to pull over immediately; but it was several years ago.

[lex]

This is old but just in case it can help someone, The Red Triangle Light for me was caused by "Drivers Door Open" as simple as that.