Do you own a vehicle but do not know how serious calibration is for ensuring compliance, performance, and overall safety? If you are not aware what areas of your car require calibration, perhaps it is time you consider talking with a professional.
Areas of Your Car Requiring Calibration
There is a need for you to calibrate the cameras and sensors of your vehicle after a recent windshield replacement, suspension change, or collision repair. You should also calibrate the radar systems that are used for adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, and emergency braking.
Other critical sensors also require calibration, including lidar sensors and ultrasonic sensors. Lidar sensors are used as lane departure warning and autonomous driving features, while ultrasonic sensors are used for parking assistance and obstacle detection.
Wheel alignment and suspension also require calibration to ensure proper wheel alignment and stability control. The electronic stability control also prevents skidding through the adjustment of the braking and torque.
If you are fond of modifying certain stock features of your car, it is quite necessary to calibrate the engine control module. This is most common when you install turbo upgrades or engine control unit remapping. The transmission control module also requires checking to ensure you get smooth shifting and optimal fuel efficiency.
When to Consider Calibrating Your Car
If your vehicle underwent repairs after a collision, you certainly need to consider calibrating the sensors, cameras, or radar. These may include bumper replacements, fender repairs, or frame straightening, which can affect the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
Also, you need to adjust the front-facing camera if you just got a new windscreen for your car. This is necessary to make sure that adaptive speed control or lane keeping works. The steering angle sensor also needs to be checked after you have replaced the shock absorbers or the struts, particularly when you have adjusted the wheel alignment.
When you replace the battery of your car, you need to understand that some vehicles can lose their calibration settings. That is because the engine control module of the vehicle can be reset when the battery is disconnected.
Sometimes, the headlights need to be replaced or adjusted. For this reason, the adaptive headlights and automatic high beams need to be calibrated to keep them functioning properly. Thus, you need to ensure windscreen calibration is carried out.
Why You Need to Consider Windscreen Calibration
When a vehicle is equipped with ADAS, it means that your car relies on cameras and sensors being mounted on or near the windshield to make it function correctly. The front-facing camera behind the windshield is in charge of the lane departure warning, adaptive cruise control, and traffic sign recognition. Any misalignment will cause these systems to malfunction.
A misaligned camera can cause lane departure alerts at the wrong time or prevent adaptive cruise control to work properly. In fact, just a small difference in glass thickness, tint, or curvature may affect the positioning of the camera and sensor readings.
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