Tire pressure light - Lyre
Check engine - Crack pipe. Or at least what I think a crack pipe looks like. I wouldn’t know. Im a Midwestern suburbanite. We get our kicks from Monster energy drinks and cold plunges.
Low oil - Genie bottle.
The check engine light looks like the outline of an ummmm engine.
Or a vroom vroom engine.
Hah! I thought was the only one.
It does, but IMO, it looks like an engine in the same way the save icon on your computer looks like storage media.
I mean, it’s not that drastic of a change, but how many modern cars still have circular air filters mounted on top?
obligatory SDMB nitpick:
what makes you think the air filter in the CEL icon is circular?
My interpretation has always been, referencing this picture:
The fan on the left, air filter on top and flywheel on the right.
I’m not saying I’m right, but I’m not sure what else that would be on top.
FWIW - I totally see where you are coming from and read it similarily …
but you can’t tell “circular” from that perspective … it could also be a rectangular AF … 
e.g.
It’s telling you to check your helicopter.
Vauxhall diesel particulate filter warning light looks like a VGA socket !
The Traction Control icon looks like it’s making fun of me for swerving around.
Mustang has a wrench shaped light for drive train issues.
Check your serial cable.
I’ve always thought the tire pressure light looked like a butt crack.
SHE is mooning you.
Or a belt driven fan hanging off the front?
It’s clearly a direct drive fan hanging off the front.
Thanks. By itself, that Check Engine reminds me of a simplified map for for an event space, missing the details (you are here, stairs). The stage is at right, either bar/food counter or stairs to the top and left. Add the overlay for alarm pulls, exits and extinguisher locations and the fire inspector’s happy.
I once had a fairly new car which suddenly showed a warning icon on the dash. I looked like a triangle with an exclamation point in it. I looked it up in the manual and it said it was a “master warning” light. So I took it into the dealer. They called me and basically told me that I had crappy eyesight: it wasn’t a triangle, it was a tire icon, and it was just telling me that my tire pressure was low.
Nope. VGA has 15 pins, not 11.
For a true modern engine, the icon should have a box around it very close to the engine representing how there is no room to work on your own car.
Or drone in 2024
Uears ago I had a rental for some reason (I think my car was in) My car didn’t have that then-newfangled TPMS.
I got the exclamation point in parenthesis that @Maus_Magill referenced above. I opened the glove compartment &, of course, there is no owners manual to figure out what this unknown-to-me symbol means. I was driving past a Dodge dealer so I pulled in (Hey, an exclamation point is important, right) & they told me it was a low tire pressure. I walked around the car & none of the tires were obviously low so I just drove it back to the rental place & let it be their problem.
I just recently had it come on but all of my tires were good, then it was intermittent so I took it over to the tire place; turns out that two of the tires needed new batteries for the sensors. Damn they’re relatively expensive (over $100 for them installed). He was saying I could do the black electrical tape method of making the sensor disappear. Glad I did it right as I’ve now had one the sensor legitimately come on for one of those tires (slow leak). Taking it in for them to look at tomorrow.