One section does list the Tail Lamp relay being in the rear fuse block, so passenger side rear of luggage compartment, that is in the rear of the vehicle, and I'm not at all a 100% sure on these wiring diagrams, This is the diagram of that, showing the Purple wire and the Brown/White wire that run to the rear tail lamps, in this it appears that they run the wires for the front marker lamps from that rear fuse block, but that doesn't make much sense, So I would check this rear fuse block, it's probably behind some paneling in the trunk area. The fuse labels don't make much sense either, the connector diagrams definitely have errors in them. You can test the ground wire at the rear lamp assembly by hooking it into a power wire and touching the black ground wire and see if your meter reads 12-volts if that's what you are using. LEDs don't take nearly the amperage of incandescent lamps and that's why they show resistors in-series in the circuit with the LEDs.
Each version whether it's the T90 option or not shows an 8 pin Tail Lamp connector, some pins are not used in the non T90 design but according to the OEM diagrams Pin F is used in both cases for the rear Tail/Park lamps, but you can see in the 4th diagram they have the left side marked incorrectly. In either case you should have a brown/white wire on the Right side with power for the Tail lamps,
It should be the same for the driver side rear, but a purple wire, and that's coming from the Relay for those Tail lamps, so if you have power on one of those wires you can use the Black wire as your ground for the meter and should read 12v. There are some timeouts programmed into the BCM, but it's supposed to be 10mins so if you test with the vehicle running you should be fine, and I would also check it with the switch set on a manual mode as well as any auto setting it has.
This other vehicle was a 2005 Cad CTS, and its Park lamps were only those small outside quarter panel lights. The Front marker lamps only worked when in Drive, Neutral or Reverse and with the Headlights off (5th diagram). So, that might be the case here as well, but we wouldn't know because they don't have anything labelled correctly. I do hope you aren't chasing a normal function here. But it might be the case. It looks like the BCM uses the same LEDs as Turn signals and just pulses them off and on. With the 3 sets of LEDs on each side, 1 is for the Reverse lamps which need to be a white color, then Stop lamps. Whatever lamps turn on with the License plate lamps, if they are the small quarter panel lamps in the rear might be the Marker/Park lamps, whatever they are called. And the ones that come on in Drive might be tied into the daytime running lamps or some sub system.
Sorry it's so confusing but have someone stand in back and tell you what lights come on or off with the headlight switch positions.
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Sunday, September 24th, 2023 AT 3:10 PM