Do you mean that all the bulbs in the rear of the vehicle went out all at the same time? And just so I understand you correctly, you had the Jf02 connector unplugged, were you using the test light in series with the connector, or did you have the test light hooked to a body ground location, and just touching the pins one by one? This Joint connector has 5 pins that are linked together for the brake lights, 1 of those pins is the input and the other 4 are the output pins. But it also does the same for the 4 tail, 2 license plates with 1 feed wire. But it doesn't appear that the Turn signals come through this connector, if you notice pins 11 to 15 says c-can(high), those are computer network data wires. And Im sorry for the delay, but this is a complicated set up. I don't think you need to replace that joint connector unless it is full of corrosion. If the pins are clean. Then we have something else going on here. It doesn't look like you should have any Turn signals at those pins. Unless it's feeding back through one of the shared ground connections.
From the Joint connection diagram can you tell me what pins are giving you a turn signal flash? And also explain a bit about the bulbs burning out, did they all burn out at once and when you replaced them, did you look at the bulb and could see the actual filament burnt inside the bulb? I know it's a lot to ask. But if they all stopped working at the same time, that points to some other type of failure.
On another diagram I'm looking at the Turn Signals come from the Smart Junction Box (2nd diagram) on the driver side dash. And they don't go through that connector.
Another thing is that the Body Control Module, the Powertrain control module, the Instrument Cluster, the AC control module, Electronic Steering module, and a couple of these Smart Junction boxes are all part of the exterior lighting system and communicate together on the can-c network bus.
So, if all the lights quit together at the same time, I don't think it was just a matter of bulbs burning out all at once.
The 3rd diagram shows just the exterior lighting system and every green mark is a module(computer) and the reddish mark is that connector.
I'm going to go through and look for any Technical Bulletins on this as well.
Looking back at your last post saying they were all blown out, you may want to check the Alternator at this point to make sure there are no diodes inside that have failed and allowing any AC voltage ripple through the system.
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Saturday, October 1st, 2022 AT 4:25 PM