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If you work on Toyota, Lexus, or Scion vehicles, you've probably hit the wall at least once: a customer brings in a car with a warning light, you need to run a health check or recalibrate an ADAS system, and your generic scan tool just doesn't go deep enough. Toyota's factory diagnostic software, Techstream, has long been the gold standard for accessing the full depth of these …
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One of the most common questions we get at ADAS Depot is some version of this: "Does this Autel system work on [make/model/year]?" It's a fair question, and the answer matters before you commit to a job, or before you invest in equipment. Autel has a free tool that answers it directly. It's called the ADAS Setup & Reverse Lookup Guide, and it lives on autel.us. You pick you …
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If your shop is doing radar calibrations, you need a trihedral reflector — that triangle-shaped cone target that bounces the radar signal back during calibration. There are a few options on the market right now, and the differences between them are significant enough to affect how your calibrations go day to day. Here's how the four main players stack up: the Autel radar …
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