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2017 PIU turn signal socket and harness

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New Ford owner here!
I have a 2017 PIU with the LED MCGB53-13411-AB turn signal bulb / harness. I have one that is not working and would like to convert it to the standard bulb style.
Can anyone help with the part numbers to do this?
I saw in another post DB5Z-13A006-A listed for a 2014, does this also work for the 2017?

Thank you,
 



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New Ford owner here!
I have a 2017 PIU with the LED MCGB53-13411-AB turn signal bulb / harness. I have one that is not working and would like to convert it to the standard bulb style.
Can anyone help with the part numbers to do this?
I saw in another post DB5Z-13A006-A listed for a 2014, does this also work for the 2017?

Thank you,
It seems it is only for the 2013-15 model years according to this site.
Several items changed with the 2016 Explorer refresh.

Peter
 






I'm also looking for this particular item (the short cable/sub-harness that goes between the main engine bay harness and the park/turn signal socket). After a lot of time searching, I've concluded that it likely does not exist as a standalone orderable part for MY 16-19. The other threads I found had people making their own.
Ford sells the part for MY 13-15 (DB5Z-13A006-A), but it appears that they neglected to do so for the redesign from MY 2016 onwards. Thus, those of us with 2016-2019 FPIUs are out of luck.
I consider myself to be pretty adept at searching for Ford parts. I can normally navigate the various catalog websites, browse through the diagrams, and use keyword searches to find what I need. Worst case scenario Google normally gets me unstuck. Here, though, I've come up completely empty. None of my tricks can find the part number for this piece. I think that Ford might sell them included in the engine bay harness, which costs many hundreds of dollars and thus does not make sense to buy.

The park/turn signal bulb socket is a common size, and the socket connector is one Ford used for decades. Pigtails are widely available and inexpensive. While I'd like to avoid hack jobs when I can, I'll likely just get one of those and splice it directly on to the engine bay harness given the lack of better options.

Unlike all the other threads on this issue, my 18 FPIU shipped with the halogen park/turn lamps, not the troublesome Whelen park/turn/warn combo LED units. However, while poking around in the engine bay for unrelated reasons, I discovered that the wiring to my right park/turn socket was falling apart. On both ends, the insulation was chipping off of the wires. Luckily, the damage was contained just to the cable. There weren't any other failing wires anywhere else in the engine bay that I could see. The signals were still working, so I luckily caught this issue in time before failure.
The harnesses had what looks to be a part number label on it, but mine were faded into oblivion on both sides. Can someone with a 16-19 PIU and factory halogen park/turn (no Whelen park/turn/wigwag) crack the hood and look at the labels on the cables leading to the park/turn sockets?

Per the wiring diagram book, this part is specific to the police variant. Normal 16-19 Explorers just connect the headlamps directly to the engine bay harness; there is no intermediate connector. In the diagram below, it's the segments between C126 and C156 (left) & C145 and C1042 (right).
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Here are some pictures of my damaged part:
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...the insulation was chipping off of the wires.
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Here are some pictures of my damaged part:
That doesn't look like an insulation failure - looks like someone was pierce-probing the wires, or using Scotch-Loks to splice into those circuits (probably for police lights).

These are some pics of tags near my headlights. Do you see enough in them? If not, which one do you need?

But I'd just amputate the unneeded inline connectors, and splice the parking light connector/socket directly onto the engine bay harness permanently.

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That doesn't look like an insulation failure - looks like someone was pierce-probing the wires, or using Scotch-Loks to splice into those circuits (probably for police lights).

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Agreed.
 






Thanks for the pictures, exactly what I needed. Shows that the engineering part number is GB5T-13A323-AA. Normally to get the service part number you'd change the fourth character to a Z, resulting in GB5Z-13A232-AA. However, internet searches for either don't bring up good results. I'll try asking a Ford dealer to look up the engineering part number in their systems and see if they can find an orderable service part.
In my searches I stumbled across the equivalent part for the 13-19 FPIS/Taurus (DG1Z-14A411-C), but that uses a different 3-pin connector on the main harness side.
That doesn't look like an insulation failure - looks like someone was pierce-probing the wires, or using Scotch-Loks to splice into those circuits (probably for police lights).
I'm not so sure, given that 1) there is damage extremely close to the connectors - too close to comfortably be using an IDC tap, 2) the insulation is extremely brittle; it easily chips away from the damaged areas, 3) both ends are damaged - how/why would that happen by probing or tapping?, and 4) it's hard to see in my photos, but there are several cracks in the insulation that run perfectly symmetrically all the way around the wire as if it just fractured. I might open up the loomed portion to see if there's any insulation damage under there, would would support the failure theory.
 






...a different 3-pin connector on the main harness side.
Cutting those connectors off & splicing the wires directly together would end your search quickly, and probably cheaply, with a better overall solution. According to Ford, inline connectors are only for assembly line use; for field repairs, Ford recommends eliminating them.
 






Cutting those connectors off & splicing the wires directly together would end your search quickly, and probably cheaply, with a better overall solution. According to Ford, inline connectors are only for assembly line use; for field repairs, Ford recommends eliminating them.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Benny from Levittown looked it up and confirmed that the part is not sold individually.
 






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