Door Ajar Warning Indicator - Description

DESCRIPTION

Door and liftgate ajar indicators are standard equipment on all instrument clusters. The ajar indications appear within the fixed segment odometer Vacuum-Fluorescent Display (VFD) unit of vehicles not equipped with a reconfigurable VFD, or in the reconfigurable VFD unit of vehicles that are equipped with the reconfigurable VFD unit option. The odometer VFD ajar indicators are textual messages that appear in place of the odometer/trip odometer information, while the indicators in the reconfigurable VFD consist of an icon representing an overhead view of the vehicle that shows the location of the condition as well as textual messages.

Both VFD units are soldered onto the cluster electronic circuit board, and are visible through windows with a smoked clear lens located at the base of the cluster overlay tachometer dial face for the odometer VFD or the speedometer dial face for the reconfigurable VFD. The dark lens over the VFD prevents it from being clearly visible when it is not illuminated. The ajar indicator textual messages or icons appear in the same blue-green color and at the same lighting level as the other information displayed in the odometer or reconfigurable VFD when they are illuminated by the instrument cluster electronic circuit board.

The ajar indicators are serviced as a unit with their VFD units in the instrument cluster.