HOW DO YOU FIX TAIL LIGHTS THAT DONT LIGHT UP? FUSES ARE GOOD AND BRAKE LIGHTS WORK BUT TAIL LIGHTS DONT LIGHT UP AT NIGHT. WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEXT STEP??
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You can see fuses in diagram, hope it's large enough to read. The B at bottom right, brown wire carries voltage for tail lamps. At the rear, brown wire is voltage and black wire is ground for tail lamps. You can use test light to check voltage and ground, both. If the other rear lamps work, ground is probably ok. As you can see, the main light switch signals the Lcm. Your owners manual should tell you which fuse is which. owner.ford.com should have your owners manual, it's free to read online. good luck
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Most every circuit in a car goes through a fuse. if you look in your owners manual for the particular vehicle you drive, you should find a listing for a fuse for brake light or brake lights. The tail light being OK should not have anything to do with the brake light. They'll be different bulbs, or, at worst, different filaments in the same bulb, and on different fuses. The brake and tail lights are distinct because otherwise, if you had your tail lights on at night, no one could tell you were pressing your brakes.
If you were meaning that the bulb for the brake light in the tail cluster is good, that also will point to a blown fuse. Check there first.
i assume you have checked all lighting fuses. if you have not, start there. do you have brake lights? if you do have brake and head lights then i would suspect the dimmer/light switch.
Under ya hood in the fuse box. There is a relay that will blow when it is shorted out. Look on the inside of the cover and you will see just which one it is.... You can replace it with another one to see if the relay is bad or not......
Look at fuse #18, a 15 amp fuse, in the fuse block. This fuse powers both the tail lights and instrument cluster lights. Usually both of these light systems are powered by the same fuse so when your cluster isn't lit up you'll know right away that your tail lights aren't working as it's not safe to drive without tail lights. Your brake, turn, and head lamps are powered by different circuits. Hope this helps and good luck!
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