Brake/Parking Brake Indicator - Description

DESCRIPTION

A brake indicator is standard equipment on all instrument clusters. This indicator is located near the top of the cluster overlay, between the speedometer and the tachometer. Illumination of this indicator may also be accompanied by the display of certain textual messages in the cluster reconfigurable dot matrix display.

The brake indicator consists of a stencil-like cutout of the word BRAKE and the International Control and Display Symbol icons for Brake Failure and Parking Brake in the opaque layer of the instrument cluster overlay. The dark outer layer of the overlay prevents the indicator from being clearly visible when it is not illuminated. A red Light Emitting Diode (LED) behind the cutout in the opaque layer of the overlay causes the indicator to appear in red through the translucent outer layer of the overlay when it is illuminated from behind by the LED, which is soldered onto the instrument cluster electronic circuit board.

The brake indicator is serviced as a unit with the instrument cluster.