Driver Information Center (Dic); Dic Operation And Displays - Chevrolet 2008 Cobalt Owner's Manual

Driver Information Center (DIC)

Your vehicle has a Driver Information Center (DIC).
The DIC display gives you the status of many of your
vehicle's systems. The DIC is also used to display driver
personalization menu modes and warning/status
messages. All messages will appear in the DIC display,
located at the bottom of the instrument panel cluster.
INFO (Information): Press this button to scroll through
the vehicle information mode displays.
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(Reset): Press this button to reset some vehicle
information mode displays, select a personalization menu
mode setting, or acknowledge a warning message.
Press and hold the information and reset buttons at the
same time for one second, then release the buttons
to enter the personalization menu. See DIC Vehicle
Personalization on page 3-48 for more information.
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The DIC buttons are
located on the left side of
the steering wheel.

DIC Operation and Displays

The DIC comes on when the ignition is on. The DIC has
different modes which can be accessed by pressing
the DIC buttons. The button functions are detailed in
the following.
Information Modes
INFO (Information): Press this button to scroll through
the following vehicle information modes:
Outside Air Temperature and Odometer
Press the information button until the outside air
temperature and the odometer display. This mode shows
the temperature outside of the vehicle in either degrees
Fahrenheit (°F) or degrees Celsius (°C) and the total
distance the vehicle has been driven in either miles (mi)
or kilometers (km). The outside air temperature appears
on the left side of the DIC display and the odometer
appears on the right side of the display.
To change the DIC display to English or metric units,
see "UNITS" under DIC Vehicle Personalization on
page 3-48.