What on earth does this mean?

[Croppie]

Morning all. 

 

Bought a fabia a couple of days ago and there's a symbol on the display that lights up for 30 seconds or so and I'm damned if I can find it in the handbook. Basically it's three horseshoes in white, with the opening at the bottom and a separate horizontal line under but not touching each of them.

 

Driving me mad trying to fathom it out!

 

Thank you all.

[Croppie]

Oh, and I'm pretty sure it's not tyre pressure,  there's no ! in any of them.

[Ootohere]

Welcome.

 

Have you set your tyre pressures then reset the TPMS?

 

Guess number 1 if not the TPMS.

   Seat belt warning.

Edited 21 October, 2018 by Offski

[Croppie]

Cheers Offski.  Weren't that.

 

Perhaps a picture might help.

 

On a different note the ability to choose music on my phone without touching it is pretty cool.

[Auric Goldfinger]

Rear seat belt symbols.

 

If one seat was used and buckled up the symbol would  show which seat was occupied and seat belt in use

 

Simply Clever

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 21 October, 2018 by Auric Goldfinger

[Croppie]

30 minutes ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

Rear seat belt symbols.

 

If one seat was used and buckled up the symbol would  show seat was occupied and seat belt in use

 

Simply Clever

 

 

 

You, sir, are a genius! That was exactly it!

[lawnmowerman]

3 hours ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

Rear seat belt symbols.

 

If one seat was used and buckled up the symbol would  show which seat was occupied and seat belt in use

 

Simply Clever

 

 

Yes, simply clever. But I'm struggling to figure out the point of it.

 

I thought (wrongly) it might have had something to do with loading i.e. amount of passengers which the tyre pressures are set for. Like Croppie I searched in vain to find out what it meant. Out of interest where did you find the info (or are you just Simply Clever too) .

 

Bill 

 

p.s. it extinguishes after start up on my Fabia (and it is in a different location). Having said that I have never had anyone as a rear seat passenger.

Edited 21 October, 2018 by lawnmowerman
p.s.

[Auric Goldfinger]

1 hour ago, lawnmowerman said:

 

Out of interest where did you find the info (or are you just Simply Clever too) .

 

 

[AGFalco]

  Rear seat belt warning
Read and observe on page 39 first.
 A rear seat belt is not fastened
 A rear seat belt is fastened
The warning icons  or  light up after the ignition has been switched on.
When the seat belt is fastened/unfastened, the respective icon lights up briefly
and indicates the current belt status.

 

 = warning symbol. See page 39 of the car Manual.

If you want to see the icon for a rear seat belt being used the just clip one together before turning the ignition on.

A driver is responsible for children ( under 14 years ) to be belted up in a car.

 

Thanks AG Falco

[bertJ]

Out of interest, these symbols are used on all Skodas, VW's etc. I've seen similar symbols on a Mercedes C Class - perhaps they're a legal requirement to remind about using rear seat belts?

Edited 21 October, 2018 by bertJ

[Auric Goldfinger]

1 hour ago, bertJ said:

Out of interest, these symbols are used on all Skodas, VW's etc. I've seen similar symbols on a Mercedes C Class - perhaps they're a legal requirement to remind about using rear seat belts?

 

IIRC the driver is not responsible if the rear seat passengers choose not wear seat belts. I think the driver must inform the rear seat passengers to wear the seat belt. If they don't he cannot be held responsible for there actions. The 3 symbols will tell the driver who has/hasn't buckled up....................

 

[bertJ]

1 hour ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

.................................. I think the driver must inform the rear seat passengers to wear the seat belt. If they don't he cannot be held responsible for their actions....................

 

But the driver will be very 'upset' by the action of the rear seat passenger when he/she smashes into the back of his/her seat!!!! 

[AGFalco]

Just read this!  

 

Adults travelling in the rear of a car must also use seatbelts, if they're fitted. It's the responsibility of the adult passenger (not the driver) to make sure that they are using the seatbelt.
 

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/answers/is-it-the-responsibility-of-the-driver-to-make-sure-that-adult-passengers-wear-seatbelts

 

Thanks Ag Falco

[xman]

Thanks! I'll explain that to my spaniel too.

[AGFalco]

29 minutes ago, xman said:

Thanks! I'll explain that to my spaniel too.

 

And does he sit in the passenger seat then. 

 

Thanks AG Falco

[xman]

Yes, but only when she's not driving me home from the pub...

 

Edited 22 October, 2018 by xman

[AGFalco]

3 minutes ago, xman said:

She

 

 

Sorry. 

 

Thanks AG Falco

[Ootohere]

Not the same symbol used on all VW cars luckily, seeing as many see an Upside Down Horse Shoe as bad luck.  The Luck Runs out.

 

I have the Symbols that look like a body with a head still attached.   The Lucky White Heather Symbols.  'Simply Clever'.

[AGFalco]

So the symbols haven't been ISO'd yet?

 

Thanks AG Falco

[xman]

7 minutes ago, AGFalco said:

So the symbols haven't been ISO'd yet?

 

Thanks AG Falco

 

Committee still sitting, expense fund not exhausted yet, plenty more choccy digestives and bourborns to be finished  then it has to be ratified, waiting for right time of year for ratification meeting in Maldives.

[alltorque]

Aren't the Maldives supposed to be under the sea by now?