Trust me, I am not a mechanic!
There may be a few things that I know about vehicles. Usually, I can tell if a vehicle is a car, truck, or van. Also, I can tell what color they are most of the time. However, that is about all that I really know about vehicles. These days, as I try to save money and be more self-sufficient, I'm trying to learn and apply. Here is my recent attempt to fix an issue that I was having.
MY PROBLEM
My recent issue with my vehicle is that my brake lights went out. Thankfully, the brakes still worked, but no warning lights would come on. This can be dangerous, so I got right to work.
Under the dash is a whole mess of wires. Honestly, I have no real idea what I am looking at under there. I can see a lot of pretty colors, and they almost look like little snakes, but, other than that, I'm pretty much clueless.
I wasn't about to let my ignorance stop me, so I got right down there and started messing with things. As it turns out, when you press the brake pedal, not only does it engage the brakes, it also presses a brake light switch that sends a signal to the brake lights.
I bought a new on and began to figure out how to take the old one out. It took some effort, but eventually I got it and we were on to the next step.
Hooking the new one up was basically the same process as unhooking the last one, I just had to do it backwards... but, this did not solve the problem. Actually, I only ended up swapping a good switch for another good switch.
Plan B?
Since that did not solve my problem, I needed to figure out something else to try. Having used electricity before, I knew that light bulbs could burn out. Since the brake lights had light bulbs, I thought that maybe they both burned out. The problem was that the bulbs were hidden by a plastic cover that almost acted like a force field to protect the bulbs and obstruct my vision.
A direct path seemed like the best one to take, so I busted out the cover. Unfortunately, this did not solve my problem either, since I could now see that all of the bulbs were still good. However, not wanting to risk anything, I replaced them anyway.
I also had to replace the cover, since the last one got broken somehow. wink! As a last resort, I checked the fuse box. Sure enough, the fuse was blown, and I had to replace that too!
As I said earlier, I an not a mechanic, but I think I figured out how some auto shops make so much money! Does anyone out there need some work done on their vehicle? If so, I can work for STEEM, but we may have to replace a few parts and it could take hours to "diagnose" the problem.
As always, I'm 
and here's the proof:
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Until next time…
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