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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 11:04 PM
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why is the picture of the engine on my check engine light a car engine? Shouldn't it be a picture of a V-Twin?


 
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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 11:17 PM
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Yeah, and the oil lamp should be a plastic oil bottle rather than a can, the turn signal lamps should be round and orange, and the key shaped alarm lamp should be a fist hitting a face. Darn modern international symbols!
 
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Old Aug 28, 2007 | 11:53 PM
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ORIGINAL: hAkron

why is the picture of the engine on my check engine light a car engine?

Shouldn't it be a picture of a V-Twin?


Tim??
 
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:13 AM
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[sm=icon_rofl.gif]... Oh No ... not again... surely not Mud.. the post number is way too high..

BTW I'd guess in answer to your question that HD is just practicing the KISS theory of notification when the dash lights lightup... be my guess anyways..
 
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 07:01 AM
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ORIGINAL: hAkron

why is the picture of the engine on my check engine light a car engine?

Shouldn't it be a picture of a V-Twin?


Tim??
If you're suggesting that I'm that ScreamingEagle guy or whatever his other various names were, the answer is no!!!

Also, to the other replies, I DO realize that this is an international symbol, I was just being silly.
 
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 08:09 AM
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Yeah, realized that. I was being silly, too. Since I got my 07, the engine light reminds me everytime I start 'er up how the world is slowly molding everything and everybody into one boring, souless mass. The "Pussification of the American male" is even creeping into my beloved two-wheeled symbol of Americanna. I can handle the EFI and security alarm, but if my steed just has to have that blasted little lamp, it SHOULD be in the shape of a V-Twin. Would look dern cool, too. I would even like to see that everytime I kick 'er, I mean thumb 'er, to life.
 
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 08:13 AM
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...key shaped alarm lamp should be a fist hitting a face.
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 11:22 AM
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ya i thought it was a trans symbol first till my indy mech told me it was just the engine light and it could be anything really, my dad and i always called them idiot lights and preferd gauges as they were a better guess as to where the prob was. the v motor would be a **** lookin symbol
 
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I noticed a long time ago ,..how the cruise control light was exactly the same as in the wifes ford 500 car.
 
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Old Aug 29, 2007 | 02:27 PM
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Their trying to confuse us. Or give us something to complain about.
 
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