Wiring break in brake/turn signal lines to rear, wiring diagram needed?

Joe,

Thank you so much, that was exactly what I needed. I never thought those circuits would be fused but they are - apparently, for the electronics inside the taillights - and I went to check the fuses first. Unfortunately, they are good so it's something else. From your diagram I see that each taillight has a built-in circuit board - that one I could have easily guessed alright - but:

I can't really recognize the wiring that goes in and out of the taillights. On both sides of the car, I have the same set of 5 colors and if I do a voltmeter test, I can see which wire is for the brake (stop light) and which is for the turn signal. This is not what I see on your diagram.

So, if there's a common signal that gets distributed inside the taillight circuit board to different functions, I have the taillights working, only the stop lights/turn signals are not. This brings me to the theory that the issue could be in the fuses wiring because those fuses are the only element in the whole chain that matches the problem exactly. Again, fuses are good so I'm thinking of measuring voltage at them as well as the corresponding pins on the BCM.

So, my question to you is this: I see the pins are #1 and #3; would you happen to have the pinout or even just the numbering on the BCM? I don't even know where it's located yet but I'll find it, I just need to know which pins to measure at.

If you have any other thoughts; please feel free to share them.

Thank you.

Joe,

Thank you for the update but no, it's a one-piece liftgate and the second set of schemes is even further from the truth. Please find attached the following photos:

* First two pics are of the actual taillight
* Next three pics are stock photos of the harness, one is captioned

Here's an eBay listing of the real thing with large pics for clarity:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/275196420129?hash=item4012fc2021:g:sg0AAOSwX3hiI CS&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwO7T%2BmGwJqplOCz59SX%2BdGkRDWQ9Lw%2BZxX%2BWqhzyx7%2BPicZF2P5xiEQ3ULJP7AmdNHxWYYNC68OkZ3cIDLU3YPA85h%2FBbv1%2BC7bZM%2FiVrZM%2BUiTjvH%2B%2F63uvKzNwmWwP99tdi3QodCNL4LrE%2B%2Fm0oa9Ow2%2Fbh2D8T4xEDInm7m7nkReJr28hl2kh3zaMAen86LXTVRw0F%2BmMAIW2F8MsS%2FpVNLrajUqv6598CD%2FrosXxlSnmI9n0RtfjBUEkDUYY0A%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6rD25K9YQ

Please copy the whole string because in the hyperlink it gets cut.

So, I really need to match the 6-lead connector's colors to a wiring diagram. So far, I've been unable to do that in what you've sent me. Let me once again say that we're talking about a 2008 Cadillac Escalade Base (model doesn't matter anyway, they're all the same in the taillights.)

Thank you for your assistance.

Hi again,

No, I'm not getting power in the brake/turn lead on any side, left or right. This is the reason to ask for diagrams, so I know how to follow those leads back to the BCM.

The new scheme is again not the answer because I don't have upper right and lower right - or left. It's a one-piece taillight so we're basically not looking at the correct diagrams.

Don't worry about it, I'll figure it out somehow. Thank you for your time.

Joe, could you please send me the Body Control Module diagram so I can try to make some sense of it? I'm browsing the forums and it's now pretty clear that 2 out of the 5 leads going into the LED block are not used - the yellow and pink ones. That leaves us with Blue (stop/turn), Brown (side marker) and Black (ground) to be located on the diagram. Let me see what I can figure out if I start at the other end.

Also, a pic of the BCM connector for the pinout and pin numbering would help a lot. If you don't have it, I'll try to guess it by the wire colors. Let's start with the BCM diagram anyway.

Thank you.