Patent ID: 7469172

Claim:
A computerized method for displaying a wiring diagram of a vehicle in a display device of an automotive diagnostic tool, the method comprising: generating an image of a wiring diagram corresponding to a vehicle component and a vehicle module having at least one wire therebetween; controlling the display device so as to display the image, the at least one wire being displayed as a color graphic; providing a database of wiring data for vehicles, the wiring data identifying a vehicle component, a vehicle module, and at least one wire therebetween having a color, the database further identifying the color; and selecting wiring data from the database for display, wherein further the controlling the display device includes controlling the device so as to display the image having a vehicle component, vehicle module and at least one wire therebetween corresponding to the selected wiring data, the corresponding at least one wire being displayed as a color graphic corresponding to the identified color from the selected wiring data.