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Started 11 months ago by throngsman
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throngsman

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We inherited a Peugot 5008 earlier this year. On a couple of occasions a symbol that looks like a man with a red bolt of lightning through his head comes up. It always happens near Chester Zoo and once today on the M6 near Morecambe turning. I can't find anything in the 200 + page pdf manual, nor anything online.

Does any biscuiteer have a Scooby doo what the symbol is for - it appears where the speed camera warning symbols appear.

Posted 11 months ago #
Sinnick

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- About to have migraine

- NRA member nearby

- shocking driving

You're welcome

Posted 11 months ago #
Sinnick

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Can't find it. Perhaps they just throw one in for a laugh
If it's red, take it seriously

http://public.servicebox.peugeot.com/APddb

Posted 11 months ago #
Terry Bunn

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Possibly it's warning of low overhead cables - although like so many of these safety features it doesn't work where it's meant to and does work when there's no need.

Posted 11 months ago #
Al OPecia

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Perhaps it's a Brexit ahead warning symbol?

Posted 11 months ago #
Gerontius

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Have you checked the boot...there could be a dead body inside.
It's an easy mistake to make.

Posted 11 months ago #
Crayon

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It's probably a warning for a multi-issue pile-up with your significant other in the passenger seat. Chester Zoo and Morecambe are popular argument black spots.

Posted 11 months ago #
sydalg

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This must be a personalised light just for you, Throngs. Probably means Titus is about to smite you for not making him WOTM.

Posted 11 months ago #
throngsman

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Nah, that's Titus' doing. No need for my intervention

Posted 11 months ago #
Midfield Diamond

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I'm no mechanic, but from your description, it sounds like the 'Accident Blackspot' indication, generated by the SatNav. I saw something similar on a Citroen I had as a hire car for work, and it would be consistent with always appearing at the same spot (near Chester Zoo in your case).

Someone obviously thought it would be a good idea to distract the driver from looking at the road by generating a mysterious, unintelligible symbol on the SatNav display as you hurtle towards an accident blackspot.

Posted 11 months ago #
Gerontius

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'Red bolt of lightning through his head' you say?

Like this?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/20/david-bowie-aladdin-sane-allbum-photograph-donated-victoria-albert-museum#img-1

Posted 11 months ago #
Midfield Diamond

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I've just noted that both throngs and I made it absolutely clear that neither of us had chosen the wheels we had driven, just in case anyone accused us of such dreadful taste as to buy something designed by that lot over the Channel.

Posted 11 months ago #
Titus

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... such dreadful taste as to buy something designed by that lot over the Channel.

Just as well. You do realise, don't you, that all such cars will spontaneously self-destruct on Nov 1st?

Posted 11 months ago #
beau-jolly

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Harry Potter warning?

Posted 11 months ago #
Sir Lupus

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Like it BJ. Maybe it lets you know when you're near a filming location. Or a pack of Dementors.

Sod Brexit when are we going to get the answer here? Apart from MDs plausible suggestion...

Posted 11 months ago #
beau-jolly

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I have trawled the Interwebs with no joy. The accident black spot warning is normally a white triangle with a big black spot in it. Like you, I am gagging for an answer.
The only similar thing I came across was a graphic for Artificial Intelligence but can't see how that might fit in.

Posted 11 months ago #
throngsman

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We know it appears near Chester Zoo (Upton, specifically) and plan to photograph it.

Posted 11 months ago #
Midfield Diamond

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Here you go

Does it look like that, throngsman? Mystery solved? I can't find it on a Peugeot website but reckon that's it.

Posted 11 months ago #
Sinnick

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That looks like a US policeman's work on an unarmed black fellow

Worth a warning then

Posted 11 months ago #
throngsman

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Many thanks, mystery solved.

Posted 11 months ago #
Sir Lupus

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I can't tell you how relieved I am to have this mystery cleared up.

Actually I can tell you. Fairly relieved. But obviously not as much as throngsman.

Posted 11 months ago #
beau-jolly

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Well, phew! I'm glad that's sorted, although I'm a little disappointed. I wonder why they use such a weird symbol rather than the standard one?

Also why is Chester zoo a black-spot? Is that the leopards or do they have rare bead pigs?

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