Brake Lights

My 1995 XLT Explorer's brake lights don't work. The upper brake light above
the rear window does work. I checked the owner's manual, and looked for the
fuse, and checked it, and it looks ok to me. Any suggestions about why this
could be? If one brake light is out would the other be out too? Seems hard
to believe that both bulbs would burn out at the same time. Thanks for your
help.

one more thing -- maybe I didn't check the right fuse -- it wasn't 100%
clear in the manual which fuse was which.

"Jacob" > wrote in message
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> My 1995 XLT Explorer's brake lights don't work. The upper brake light
> above the rear window does work. I checked the owner's manual, and looked
> for the fuse, and checked it, and it looks ok to me. Any suggestions
> about why this could be? If one brake light is out would the other be out
> too? Seems hard to believe that both bulbs would burn out at the same
> time. Thanks for your help.
>

The fuse would be for all three lights. Either you have a wiring problem or
both lower lights are burned out. You did not say if you have tried to
replace one of the lights with a known good bulb. Do the flashers/turn
signal work? how about normal rear lights? Since bulbs normally last a
similar amount of time, I normally replace both when the first one burns
out.

Art

"Jacob" > wrote in message
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> one more thing -- maybe I didn't check the right fuse -- it wasn't 100%
> clear in the manual which fuse was which.
>
> "Jacob" > wrote in message
> ...
>> My 1995 XLT Explorer's brake lights don't work. The upper brake light
>> above the rear window does work. I checked the owner's manual, and
>> looked for the fuse, and checked it, and it looks ok to me. Any
>> suggestions about why this could be? If one brake light is out would the
>> other be out too? Seems hard to believe that both bulbs would burn out
>> at the same time. Thanks for your help.
>>
>
>

Thanks for your reply. I guess I was pretty stupid, but I thought that it
couldn't be the bulb since both went out at the same time! I took it to a
mechanic and he changed the bulbs and now it's fine. He told me that it's
very common that when one burns out, there's a voltage jump and the other
burns out at the same instant. Now I know!

"Art McClinton" > wrote in message
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> The fuse would be for all three lights. Either you have a wiring problem
> or both lower lights are burned out. You did not say if you have tried to
> replace one of the lights with a known good bulb. Do the flashers/turn
> signal work? how about normal rear lights? Since bulbs normally last a
> similar amount of time, I normally replace both when the first one burns
> out.
>
> Art
>
> "Jacob" > wrote in message
> ...
>> one more thing -- maybe I didn't check the right fuse -- it wasn't 100%
>> clear in the manual which fuse was which.
>>
>> "Jacob" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> My 1995 XLT Explorer's brake lights don't work. The upper brake light
>>> above the rear window does work. I checked the owner's manual, and
>>> looked for the fuse, and checked it, and it looks ok to me. Any
>>> suggestions about why this could be? If one brake light is out would
>>> the other be out too? Seems hard to believe that both bulbs would burn
>>> out at the same time. Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>
>>
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