Driver Information Center (DIC)The Driver Information Center (DIC) gives you thestatus of many of your vehicle’s systems. The DIC isalso used to display warning/status messages. Allmessages will appear in the DIC display located at thebottom of the instrument panel cluster, below thetachometer and speedometer. The DIC buttons arelocated on the instrument panel, to the left of thesteering wheel.The DIC comes on when the ignition is on. After a shortdelay, the DIC will display the current driver and theinformation that was last displayed before the enginewas turned off.The top line of the DIC display shows the vehiclesystem information and the warning/status messages.The bottom line of the DIC display shows either theodometer, the trip odometer A or the trip odometer Binformation on the left side. Only one odometercan appear at a time. See “Trip Information” under DICOperation and Displays on page 3-74 for informationon changing the display to show the odometer ortrip odometer information. The bottom line of the DICdisplay also shows the outside temperature on the rightside and the shift lever position indicator in the center.See Automatic Transmission Operation on page 2-32for more information on the shift lever positions.When the sport mode is active, an S will appear nextto the shift position indicator on the center of theDIC display. When the manual mode is active, an Mwill appear on the DIC display. When the normal modeis active, only the shift position indicator will appear.While the Driver Shift Control (DSC) feature is active,the DIC will change to show the selected gear.See “Driver Shift Control (DSC)” under AutomaticTransmission Operation on page 2-32 for moreinformation.If a problem is detected, a warning message will appearon the display. Be sure to take any message thatappears on the display seriously and remember thatclearing the message will only make the messagedisappear, not correct the problem.DIC Operation and DisplaysThe Driver Information Center (DIC) has different modeswhich can be accessed by pressing the four DIC buttonslocated on the instrument panel, to the left of thesteering wheel.3-74
