If there is a bulb, it should work.
Yes
There are a few things that can cause tail lights to go out such as: 1. A corroded light socket 2. Blown bulb(s) 3. Tail light relay (some cars) 4. Tail light fuse 5. Faulty or touching wires
A short in the tail light circuit. Brake and turn are on another circuit. Dash light power is fed from the tail light fuse to the dimmer switch and on to the dash lights. Look for a short in the tail light wiring circuit. Also check the license plate light for a short as it is on the tail light circuit also. Had a car with blown fuse, traced the circuit for tail lights and found nothing. Jumped the fuse and burned out the wiring to the tail lights. Come to find out, the short was in the license plate light. Also a bad headlight switch can cause this. Both tail light circuit and headlight circuit go through the switch. Contacts for the tail lights may be bad (defective switch common).
Something you may not realise is that the brake light bulb is often one bulb with two elements. One of the elements will be for the brake and the other will be for the tail lighting for example so,when tested, the actual bulb will still light up because the second element is unaffected. Make sure that the 'blown' bulb that you are actually changing is not in fact your fog lamp. This will not automatically light up when you test your lights as you have to operate this light separately (similarly to indicator lights). So the fog lamp bulb will appear to be the only one not lit up when you test your lights. Find the bulb with two elements inside and change that one. Sounds obvious (and may be obvious to many) but it's a common mistake. Hope this helps!.
Tail light fuse is blown. It also feeds the 5 amp dash light fuse. Also check for shorts causing the fuse to blow including the license plate light.
This is because the tail light bulb has a different element in the bulb. Just replace the bulb and that will fix the problem.
Have you checked your bulbs ? The tail light / brake light bulb has 2 wires inside it In my case I have had to change each bulb because the brake light portion did not work but the tail light portion of the bulb did ( I'm assuming that your front park lights are working )
Tail light doesn't. Work with new bulb in
If it is not the bulb check the ground.
You need to change the bulb. The filiment for the brake light part of the bulb is "open" or burned out. The filiment for the tail light portion will still work.
Bulb is blown. Replace bulb.
tail lights circuit
1. A fuse blown in the tail light circuit. 2.A fused bulb. 3.fault in the ignition/tail light switch.
Two filaments in the light bulb. One is the tail light, the other is the brake light.
Could be a bad bulb. The same bulb has two filaments, one for the tail lights and one for the brake lights.
If it is a single bulb, it is probably the bulb. Many tail light bulbs have two separate filaments, with the turn/brake being much brighter than the marker light. The tail light and turn/brake circuits are completely separate.
try changing the fuse to the tail lights as well.