What’s on the Warning Lights poster
A 8-row table: Light · Colour · Do.
Colour is the priority; the symbol is the detail.
- Oil pressure — Red — Stop immediately; engine damage
- Engine temperature — Red — Stop; let it cool
- Brake warning — Red — Stop; check fluid and handbrake
- Battery / charging — Red — Drive to a garage, do not stop the engine
- Check engine — Amber — Investigate soon
- ABS — Amber — Brakes work, ABS may not
- Tyre pressure — Amber — Check pressures
- Fog lights — Green — Information only
Educational reference. Oil pressure and temperature are the two that cause engine destruction within minutes.
Questions about the Warning Lights poster
- What’s on the Warning Lights poster?
- A 8-row table: Light · Colour · Do. Colour is the priority; the symbol is the detail. Oil pressure — Red — Stop immediately; engine damage; Engine temperature — Red — Stop; let it cool; Brake warning — Red — Stop; check fluid and handbrake; Battery / charging — Red — Drive to a garage, do not stop the engine; Check engine — Amber — Investigate soon; ABS — Amber — Brakes work, ABS may not; Tyre pressure — Amber — Check pressures; Fog lights — Green — Information only. Educational reference. Oil pressure and temperature are the two that cause engine destruction within minutes.
- Who is the Warning Lights poster for?
- Warning Lights belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning the car can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Warning Lights poster?
- Red means stop as soon as it is safe. Amber means investigate. Green and blue are information. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Warning Lights belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Warning Lights?
- After an Accident, Breaking Down and Buying a Used Car sit alongside Warning Lights in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.After an AccidentBreaking DownBuying a Used Car
- Is the Warning Lights poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Warning Lights downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Warning Lights poster print at?
- Warning Lights is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Warning Lights loses nothing.Printing guide
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