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. It ...

If your car has low brake fluid levels (see “Checking Brake Fluid”), it usually means that there’s a leak somewhere in your wheel cylinders or your brake lines, which are the lines that run underneath ...

If you've got an angry red brake light on your dash, don't just ignore it — it's likely important. Here are five things that light might indicate.

A burnout is pretty easy to do, but it's a lot easier with a line-lock. A line-lock allows you to lock the front brakes independently of the rear brakes, so the car stays put while the tires smolder.

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 ...