Just as some faults require a scan because they won’t show up as lit dash lights, not all needed advanced driver-assistance system calibrations will show up via scan. Come again?
That’s according to Vinie Putrino, a lead ADAS technician with Autel. He says an absence of codes is not an excuse to not calibrate, and that understanding the physical interconnectedness of ADAS will help techs avoid getting caught up in a “domino effect.”
“You can do one thing and something else has to follow,” he says. “And sometimes that domino effect isn’t signified by a trouble code or any scan a technician may do. They have to know based on what they’re doing that they may have to follow up with something else.”
For instance, he says, some repairs may require the removal of a radar sensor from a car. Most techs can do that work with the vehicle’s ignition off, he says, but the mere fact that they moved that sensor around should result in getting a calibration for the radar.”
“Just because there’s no code, that doesn’t mean that there’s no work to be done on a car,” says Putrino.
Content from Fender Bender article by Mike Munzenrider, January 8, 2021.