How to locate a short in a wiring harness (visual inspection)

I teach this to my students all the time on where to start looking for a short to ground in a wiring harness. "Look for Points of contact" and "DO NOT start wiggling and pulling on the harness without doing this simple visual inspection first!". It is the difference between accidentally and temporarily fixing your problem and not knowing exactly where it is, and pinpointing the area of the fault right away.

Below is the original video this little clip was pulled from
2006 Cadillac DTS Shorted 5v Reference Circuit
https://youtu.be/uyncVz_HAtA

Typically a vehicle will not run with a shorted 5v reference circuit but in the case of this Cadillac, it has 2 separate 5v regulators, so it can still run with one of them shorted.

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