Hello there. Greetings from Ukraine. I'm new on this forum, if I post something wrong, then sorry. I tried to use search, but could not find the answers
I bought recently F150 2018 XLT (with incandescent lights) from the USA and I love it.
But according to EU standards cars should have amber tail turn signals and the stop signal should be independent of the turn signal(when turn blinking, stop should not blinking).
There is "simple" way to do this, it's just add wiring from front turn signals to tail, and put the yellow bulb into the lamp assembly, and reconect red bulbs with center stop signal(on the cabin), and put dummy on original wiring, so car will not call the error ( I hope I could describe that as much as understandable)
It will work, but I don't want to do this way, because in case one lamp burn out, car will not show any error, because there is still resistance from second lamp in the circuit.

There can be another approach:
I've read post one guy also from Ukraine, how he did it in Ford Escape 2019(USA model). Since Escape is almost the same as european Kuga, he bought Kuga's tail light assembly with separate amber turn signals. But, he needed to put additional wiring from BCM to tail turn signals. In BCM, there was non used pins(С2280B 3rd and 6th pins in his case) for left/right tail turn signals(that as I understand used in european models), so he used them and that worked. But, even they separated, when you enable turn, red stop signals will continue blinking. To prevent that, he used UCDS software to change parament in BCM that called CombinedStopTurnLamps, that parameter has two options "Separate Stop/Turns Lights" and "Combined Stop/Turns Lights". After that stop and turn signals completely independent from each others.

I want to use the same approach in my F150, because I assume that BCM in all Ford cars if not the same, should be pretty similar. But, I'm not sure that BCM in 2018 F150 has the same pinout as Escape 2019. From what I found, it differs. So, here is my 2 question:
1) what pins in BCM for left and right tail turn signals(if they even exist)?
2) is there the same parameter in BCM called CombinedStopTurnLamps?

As far I know, F150 is available in Australia and there turn signals should be amber, so I hope, BCM should have the possibility to run separate tail turn signals

I'll be thankful for any information that can help.

I hope the whole F150 community in Ukraine will be thankful for answers, because soon we will have here Mandatory technical control, and the red tail turn signal will be banned.

 

Depending on how you set up the BCM, it will provide separate turn and stop power to each rear lamp assembly. I suggest you get FORScan and an ELM module and read up on the changes you can make. There is a "sticky" thread in this forum section and you should read the first few postings at least. Next I would suggest getting a Ford Workshop Repair Manual and a complete set of wiring schematics including connector pin-outs.

I have not looked for them, but I bet if you look around you will find aftermarket lamp assemblies that have amber turn signals. They are often referred to as "export lights".

 

Here is the FORSCAN thread that 52merc was referring to: https://www.f150forum.com/f118/forsc...-truck-348987/

 

I'd love to stick an amber/white switchback in place of my reverse bulbs and have it work as Amber turn signal and white reverse if it was easy enough to disable the turn function of the red brake bulbs. I wish it was just wiring instead of the BCM controlling the flash function. . I like the look of Amber turns.

 

One of my best friends did this exact mod on his new Tacoma and it’s pretty slick.

 

I think some trims of the newer F150s have amber rear turns. Noice!

 

I don't know why we don't have the same requirements... amber rear turn signals make waaaaay more sense than flashing the brake light.

 

Seems I found something. I'll attach screen from manual.
Can you(or someone else) please confirm that pins 26 and 52 that's what I need?

And what is 31 and 44? What "signal out" means?

 

The guy that did it for his Escape 2019 that I refer to said that FORScan does not have a such parameter, so he used UCDS instead

 

I plan to put two color diode instead of backup lights, that's not tricky part for now. The question for me is BCM part