Q: Brake Light are on
I was driving and hit my brakes to fast and hard to avoid hitting another car in traffic and about 1hr after that situation I noticed my brake warning lights came on at the dash and has stayed on! Is there anything I can do myself to fix this
My car has 124705 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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