Hi, I've been playing BeamNG for a total of 900 hours and know that the Beamng team listens to the community. That's why I'm writing my idea, which should have been in the game for a long time. Everyone knows when you wreck your engine, the check engine lights up. But when you turn the car around and the game tells you that the engine is no oil, nothing lights up on the speedometer. If the piston rings are shattered, for example, the check engine light should appear on the speedometer and not just on the UI. You could generalize that everything the UI tells you (all error messages from the car) should also be displayed on the speedometer like in the real car. (PICTURE 1) My second suggestion would also be that if the error message, for example with the ETK-K or ETK-800, also appears on the screen with the error message and the description, like on a real BMW. Optionally a chime sound for realism (PICTURE 2). In old cars (such as ETK-I without a display, the car would play the chime sound and display the error message on the speedometer. Hope this idea will be read by someone from the Beamng team
1st option would definitely be the easiest to implement. the logic exists, and there are even outlines for the warnings on the dash, they just never light up. would definitely be a good idea
