Renault Clio Color Code Location
Denisha Cerniglia
As with most car manufacturers Renault paint codes can be found in several locations. Most often renault paint codes are located in the door shuts on a sticker within an oval. The code is the last 3 digits of generally a 5 digit code.
The paint code format is usually the last 3 digits of a 5 digit code The paint code is usually the third code down on the left in the attached image the code is D69 GRIS PLATINE (the last 3 digits of the 5 digit code TED69).
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If you cannot locate your paint code on the vehicle the next best alternative is to contact a local Renault dealer parts / service department with your registration / VIN number. They will be able to confirm your colour from the relevant manufacturer database. (Alas only dealers have access to this system)
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I am in the middle of installing an Admore 11" rear light bar on my wife's '20 F750GS and can't locate the plug or wiring for the taillight. Inside the rear storage area are the turn signal wires, (two wire plugs, one on each side), the harness w/o a plug running to the license plate light that appears to just be two wires, (presumably 12V and Gnd), and two plugs, one 4 wire and one 6 wire. With both of those plugs un-plugged, the brake and tail light still function. Leaving me at a loss as to where the heck the brake/tail wires are...
Any assistance from someone in the know would be appreciated. I read conflicting info on color codes and don't see those color wires on either plug. And I can't locate the wires from the brake light at this point w/o some more removal of plastic.
For the tail light, the current going to the rear tail/brake bulb is constantly pulsed on & off with the intent of maintaining about 8 volts (averaged) to the rear light (this gives a dimmer light for tail light). Then when brakes are applied that same (single wire) to the rear light is pulled high to around 12 volts & that gives the rear light a brighter brake light.
Hooking up an add-on light bar can be difficult due to the single power wire with that pulsed tail light current. Some that contain LED's CAN be made to work with some creative connection, others just won't work, or (even if) they can be made to work will trip the continuous dashboard light-out warning system .
My first suggestion to you is to call the tec help line of the light bar you are trying to install & ask them (IF) it will work on the newer BMW canbus / linbus motorcycles. At least start with that. Otherwise you can experiment with connecting that to your pulse width modulated rear single-input light wire (PM me for help with this).
There are a number of aftermarket add-on rear lights that will work with your pulsed rear light system (they usually say canbus compatible). Actually has noting to do with the canbus system but that is the way they seem to differentiate the newer pulsed one-wire systems.
Sadly, the F750s are different in several ways. Three wires is what I've been told, ground, tail and brake instead of the two wire on the earlier gen, (ground and tail/brake). The Admore light bar was previously on my wife's F650GS K72 twin, so I've been down that road. It worked fine on that bike, btw. But I didn't install it either.
This particular version of the light bar uses a brake signal as a trigger, not as power feed. It does require a separate 12v switched power source, which I may try to take from the license plate light wire. I tested it with 12V from the battery and signals work as they should on the light bar and bike. In regards to the warning light, been there on other applications with other BMWs, so I do understand that issue. I *think* this particular light is low draw enough to not cause that issue. Time will tell, once I find the brake light wire.
Should be easy enough to figure out. I believe the 750 tail light assembly is held in place with 3 "E" clips so if you can access & remove those the tail light assembly should pull free. That should allow you to unplug the connector.
Then just put your voltmeter on the 20V dc scale, ground one lead of your voltmeter, then touch the other lead to all the wires in the connector one by one while someone uses the brake pedal with the key on.
Yes, I'll need to disassemble the bike to sort this out. I'll report if what I've been told about 3 wire Vs 2 wire is correct, of if it's a similar 2 wire set up as the previous Gen of F series GS bikes. These are made by Lorcin, not Rotax/BMW, so who knows?
I was able to get the following info from Admore Lighting about the 2020 F750GS wire colors and install of their current light bar. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future. I still have not discovered the location of the tail light plug, but have not had the time to disassemble the bike yet.
But just to be confusing if you look closely at the tail light picture below is seems to show a 2.5W brake light & a .25W tail light inside? The connector looks to be a 4 pin but BMW doesn't always use all the pins in a connector socket.
You are quite correct. After removing the rear rack, which required removing the Shad top box plate and it's adapter, then the panel beneath the rack with it's four bolts, I have access to the tail light and could remove the top e-clip and perhaps unplug the tail light if necessary. Moot, since that wouldn't get me what I wanted, but I am able to see down inside the hole there and identify the three wires to the tail light. Brown is ground, then white with red trace, (tail), and grey or light blue with yellow dashes, (brake).
No joy so far in getting the Admore light bar to work for brake light. Turn signals work fine and tail light works fine if you tap the license plate 12V wire as your switched 12v source, but with the brake light wire tapped, it just shuts down the Admore bar the moment you touch the brakes.
You are quite correct. After removing the rear rack, which required removing the Shad top box plate and it's adapter, then the panel beneath the rack with it's four bolts, I have access to the tail light and could remove the top e-clip and perhaps unplug the tail light if necessary. Moot, since that wouldn't get me what I wanted, but I am able to see down inside the hole there and identify the three wires to the tail light. Brown is ground, then white with red trace and grey or light blue with yellow dashes.
Seeing as you have that grey (or light blue) with yellow dashes wire tapped you might put a voltmeter on that wire to see if it is pulse width modulated (about 8v with engine running & 12v or so when you tap the brake).
The workaround for that is to probably install small power relay (small enough pull-in coil load to not effect the brake circuit) then have that relay trigger 12v on & off from another source into your Admore bar (like from the license plate light circuit) or from fused battery direct.
I'll see if I can get a reading on that with the DMM. A test light grounded to the battery neg terminal simply caused the OEM brake/tail lights to stop functioning and go dark the moment I touched the test light probe to the gray w/yel trace wire.
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