If your car's brake lights stay on even when the engine is off, the brake light switch -- a small, innocuous electrical part you'd only see once something goes wrong with it -- is likely the culprit.

If the third brake light is working, then the problem is not with the brake-pedal switch (or the third light would not work either). That the two lower brake lights stopped working together is also a ...

DETROIT -- Nissan says it is recalling more than 854,000 cars in the U.S. and Canada over an issue involving the brake lights not activating on certain Sentra models. According to the Associated Press ...

June 26, 2023, update: Since this article originally published June 9, 2023, Hyundai/Genesis and Kia have responded to Consumer Reports’ test findings, indicating that the companies are working on a ...

While it's easy to see what the headlights at the front of our cars do, the same isn't necessarily true for lights at the rear. But we're not talking about brake lights. Put simply, tail lights, which ...

DEAR CAR TALK: "Dad, my car won't start" were the first words of a phone call from my daughter who is 1,500 miles away. Her typically reliable 2015 Madza 3 with less than 25,000 miles had stopped ...

Having only one brake light working heightens the risk of a nasty nose-to-tail accident. Picture / Getty Images A mate phoned me the other day and asked if I had noticed the increase in the number of ...