G60 Wire Color Codes, Abbreviations

[yitzac1990]

Hello all, I need some help. I am re-wiring my Patrol and am using some factory switches to keep things like turn signals and whatnot. I need help with wire colors based on color codes I found on Nissan wiring diagrams. The only chart of codes I found is:

B – Black
W – White
R – Red
Y – Yellow
G – Green
L – Blue

But what about 2 letter colors? for example: GY/R. I know its something with a red stripe (because of the slash mark, right?), but what is GY? I also have GR and GB, with NO slash mark, indicating GR and GB are single colors, not green with red stripe or black stripe. WB and WR and also present.

Any help is appreciated!

[Esteban]

When you have two letters for the colors, the first one is the main color, and the second the one for the stripe.

So a GY, will be a Green with a Yellow stripe, and so on.

All electric diagrams for the Patrol along the years have kept the same coding, and is the same in the English and Spanish diagrams.

[yitzac1990]

i am used to seeing that, but what about the example of GY/R? I have never seen a wire with 3 colors! Green with yellow and red stripes??

[Esteban]

i am used to seeing that, but what about the example of GY/R? I have never seen a wire with 3 colors! Green with yellow and red stripes??

I thought I've never seen the slash in the color codes, but went to take another look, and in fact there are a few, but all related with Black/another color. B/G, B/Y. Couldn't find any other or the one you mention.

The older electrical diagrams, maybe up to 1965, don't have the slash present. Not to divert from your concern, but in my diagrams I have one of the older ones with the sectional area of the wires in metric (mm). Have no idea where I got it.

[yitzac1990]

can you do me a favor and take a look at your diagrams, at the hazard switch and turn signal switch, and let me know what all the colors are associated with them?

This is what I currently have:

Turn Signal switch
B/G
WR
WB
GB
GR
GY
W

Hazard Switch
WR
WB
GB
GR
G/B
G
GY
GY/R
R

Notice that some of the 2-letter combinations have a slash, and some don't. In my experience, if the wire has a stripe (2 colors) then there will always be a slash. and 2 letters with no slash stood for a single color wire. For example - BR might stand for brown, instead of black with red stripe, but B/R would be black with red stripe.

[Esteban]

The color codes and order that you have for the Turn Signal switch are the same that I have in a couple of diagrams, in that order, top to bottom.

The only Hazard switch as an option, is in a diagram that's no so easy to read. I downloaded in 2009. but don't remember where. It has the following numbers at the switch, and the color of the cables corresponding to each one:

1--R To Hazard Flasher at L terminal
2--GB To Turn Signal switch FR
3--GR To Turn Signal swich FL
4--WB To Turn Signal swith RR
5--WR To Turn Signal swith RL
6-- Ties into G/B cable at B terminal of Flasher unit
7-- Ties into F terminal at Fuse block (difficult to put a color on this one)

I tried to find another diagram with the Hazard option, but didn't come with one.

[yitzac1990]

okay all, need some help again. I finally got a chance to transfer all my OEM switch pinouts to paper, and have some discrepancies between actual colors, and color callouts per the wiring diagram that I have. This is what I have:



The left side represents what was on the Nissan wiring diagram. the right side represents ACTUAL colors on my switches. NOTE: the hazard switch actually had different color wires than its mating connector from the chassis harness, so the listed actual colors are of the harness side, not the switch itself.

Can anyone help me to "match" up the correct wires to their positions somehow??

[yitzac1990]

EUREKA! just after posting that one above, I realized, my numbering of the connector was 90 degrees off of the nissan numbering. so here are the switch pinouts and they SHOULD be very accurate



I have also attached an updated PDF, which includes this information.

[Esteban]

EUREKA! just after posting that one above, I realized, my numbering of the connector was 90 degrees off of the nissan numbering. so here are the switch pinouts and they SHOULD be very accurate

Excellent! I'm glad you figured out yourself.

Will study your diagram, and although aimed for your car, will give anybody a better understanding of the hazard and turn signal connections.

[Edgar]

Thank you for this. It will come in handy as I start to tear into the Edgar's dash. Up to my ears in Patrol projects right now.