I wish your website had a place to submit unusual / rare problems FOR WHICH I ALREADY KNOW THE SOLUTION.  You have helped me so very much Scotty, that I want to Pay It Forward and help you and others with a solution to a strange problem.

And I solved the problem with something that you highly value: Common Sense.

My car problem could be used on your site as a quiz just like the quizzes Click & Clack presented on their old Car Talk radio show.

Problem: While driving my 1997 Toyota Avalon, I guy pulled up next to me at a stop light and told me that he almost ran into my back bumper because my brake lights were not working.  Because both left and right lights were out, I knew it was not a bad light bulb.  I checked the fuse but it was good.  Hmmm, what could cause this problem?  I thought about the path that the wiring takes through the car.  I was then able to get my brake lights working again in a matter of a few seconds while sitting in the driver's seat.  What did I do to fix this problem?

Answer: I pressed the emergency flasher button on and off several times.  I realized that in the many years that I had driven the car, that I had never pressed that button, so I reasoned that the contacts had become tarnished.

Now, for any car that I own, I make it a point to cycle the emergency flasher button a couple times a year.  This also helps me remember the location of that button, which in some traffic situations, needs to be pressed immediately.