What is ADAS?

An extra set of eyes. If they’re aimed right.

The cameras, radar and sensors that help your car see the road, and why they need setting up properly.

What ADAS actually is.

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: lane keeping, emergency braking, adaptive cruise, blind spot monitoring, parking assist and more.

Each one relies on a camera or radar watching a precise patch of road. Aimed right, they catch what you miss. Aimed even slightly wrong, they look in the wrong place, and the car trusts them anyway.

A Volkswagen Golf GTI in the bay with the calibration target frame

Every sensor, pointed exactly right.

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Front camera

Mounted behind the windscreen. It reads lane markings, road signs and pedestrians, and has to be recalibrated after any screen replacement.

Lane assist, emergency braking, sign recognition

What knocks it out.

Most calibrations follow an ordinary repair. If any of these happened, your car probably needs one.

  • 01

    New windscreen

    The front camera is mounted to the glass and moves with it.

  • 02

    Bumper repair

    Radar, parking sensors and often the rear camera sit behind it.

  • 03

    Tailgate or boot lid

    The rear camera is built in, so its guide lines move with it.

  • 04

    Tyres or alignment

    A change in thrust angle changes where every sensor points.

  • 05

    Suspension work

    Ride height changes the angle each camera sees the road at.

  • 06

    Headlights

    Adaptive headlamps are aimed together with the camera.

  • 07

    Brake work

    Some manufacturers call for recalibration afterwards.

  • 08

    Tow bars and racks

    Accessories can block a sensor or change how the car sits.

Two ways to calibrate.

The manufacturer decides which. Many cars need both, and we do both.

A Lamborghini Urus lined up with the camera calibration target

Static

The manufacturer’s own targets, set at exact distances and heights from the car, on a level floor. We bring the full set to you.

Checking the result on the dashboard after calibration

Dynamic

A road drive at set speeds while our diagnostic tool guides the camera or radar through its learning routine, with live data the whole way.

One degree out is a metre wrong at fifty metres.

Get it checked and set to the manufacturer’s spec, at your home, workplace or bodyshop.

50 m100 m
Dashed: where it should look. Lit: where it is looking. Sideways is drawn ten times larger.
1.0°
Off at 50 m
87 cm
Off at 100 m
1.75 m

Small on paper. Enough for lane assist to nudge you the wrong way.

Common questions.

Usually, yes, but we check first rather than assume. The camera behind your windscreen is what your lane assist, emergency braking and adaptive cruise rely on to see the road, and a new screen puts it on a new bracket at a slightly different angle. A fraction of a degree at the glass becomes metres of error further down the road. So before any calibration we scan the car and check what the manufacturer requires for it. If it needs calibrating, we do it to the manufacturer’s procedure and give you the before and after readings in writing. If it doesn’t, we tell you, and you don’t pay for work the car doesn’t need.

Yes, we come to you: your home, your workplace or your bodyshop, across London and beyond, with the full set of targets and diagnostics in the van. Most calibrations take one to two hours, depending on the car and whether it needs static targets, a road drive or both. Every car and job is different, so instead of fixed slots we agree a time with you that fits around your day, and tell you how long we’ll need before we arrive. All we ask for is a flat, level spot with a few metres clear in front of the car. No dropping the car off, no waiting room, no lost day.

More than 20, from everyday hatchbacks to hand-built supercars: Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla, Volkswagen, Volvo, Land Rover, Ferrari, Lamborghini and more. What matters is that we follow each maker’s own procedure and targets for your exact car, not a one-size-fits-all routine. If yours isn’t listed, ask us. The answer is almost always yes.

We work alongside insurance-approved bodyshops, so if your car is going through an accident repair, the calibration can be done as part of that job, at the bodyshop, without you arranging anything extra. If you’re not sure how your repair is being handled, ask your bodyshop or message us and we’ll point you the right way.

The systems keep working, just not accurately, and that’s the danger. A camera that’s slightly out can read the lane in the wrong place, brake late or not at all, or keep a following distance that’s shorter than it shows you. Some cars flag it with a warning light; many don’t. The only way to know your car sees the road the way the manufacturer intended is to calibrate it and check the readings, which is exactly what we do.

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