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Electrical Tech / Fuse box diagram....
Reception is good.  Antenna needs to "see" out through the glass so I don"t think it would work from inside the housing.
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Electrical Tech / Fuse box diagram....
I affixed the flat, magnetic satellite antenna disc to the top of the third brake light housing with a small piece of double-sided moulding tape. Then tucked the wire along the edge of the package tray and down the side of the seatback to the floor. Never had a reception problem. It is barely visible in this pic. The white square at the top of the window is the inside half of the old-school thru-the-glass cell phone antenna box.
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Electrical Tech / clock wiring
Lt Grn / Yw - Hot at All Times (keeps time memory)
Brn - Running Lamps  (Dims display when lights are on)
Wht / Pur - Hot in Acc + Run (Turns on display with key)
Blk - Ground
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Electrical Tech / Tail light socket info needed.....
Like flylear45 said with the red wire. My instructions were wrong. The Green coming out of the module is used to disable the brake light burst. The red on the sequencer is the power. That is why it is spliced onto the first socket, as that light is not actually sequenced, it comes on when the turn signal flasher tells it to and it stays on, then the sequencer adds the other two lamps in succession. Then they all go out when the flasher blinks, and it starts over again.

I apologize for the confusion.
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Electrical Tech / Tail light socket info needed.....
Sorry Vinnie, I had to bug out for a spell too.  I should have been more clear that there is a sequencer module for each, side, the procedure is repeated for each side.
Vin, when I say the original harness in the car, I am refering to the tail light harness in the trunk, before it reaches the tail lamps.  Basically, you are intercepting the voltage coming from the turn signal flasher up front, in the trunk harness and directing it to the seq. module on each side before the tail lights. As flylear45 said, the module does it thing and flashes the lights in sequential order instead of all at once.

The extra loose wires in the kit I believe are to either enable or disable the "one sequence burst" when you step on the brake.

Vinnie, if you would like I will call you, sometimes it makes more sense when you can have a conversation.
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Electrical Tech / Tail light socket info needed.....
Quote from: flylear45;425072
Look at post 26 and it tells what to do with red and black. You will put a ring terminal on black and screw it onto a good ground to ground the module electronics. VERY IMPORTANT, don't skip it!

Red powers the module and ties into the LG/O wire on the INNER (your middle) socket.

By moving the middle to the inner you are using less wires than you would have to otherwise. Just trust me on this one.

True, switching sockets around can make the wiring cleaner.
Positioning the sequencer module near the sockets in the trunk will save extending the wires also.

Now how I understand the wiring is this....

The turn signal wire from the original harness in the trunk goes to the Green wire on the sequencer (the control wire), LG/O for the left side and O/LB for the right.

The blue wire from the sequencer goes to the outside tail lamp socket
The white wire from the sequencer goes to the middle socket
The red wire from the sequencer goes to the inside socket.
Black from the sequecer and all three of the sockets go to ground.
(Refering to the picture in post #16)

The brown from all the sockets goes to the brown running light wire in the vehicle harness.
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Electrical Tech / Tail light socket info needed.....
Quote from: flylear45;425065
There's just two wires from the front of the car you are dealing with on each side. LG/O and O/LB.

You got this.

That's all you need the diagrams for Vinnie, to identify the turn signal wire on each side in the car harness.  Then you are just adding on from there.
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Electrical Tech / Tail light socket info needed.....
Vinnie, in summary, you are making two modifications:

1.  Changing the inside socket on each side from a single-filament running light to a dual filament running-turn/brake light.

2.  The original wiring in the car has the turn signal wire on each side going to the outside socket, then jumpering to the middle socket to flash both together. (Thus the wire "going in" and "coming out" of the first socket and going to the second.) 
To install the sequencer, the turn signal wire from the car harness must be cut before the outside socket and the jumper betwen the outside and middle sockets must also be cut.  This will isolate the sockets.  The turn signal wire from the car harness powers the sequencer module.  The module then powers the three sockets indvidually and in sequence via the other three wires. (Leaving black for ground.)  Physically which socket ends up where does not really matter, electrically they must be wired in correct order so the lamps flash in proper order - inside, middle, outside.