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If you run a collision, glass, or calibration shop, you already know that getting paid for ADAS work is half the battle. Identifying what calibrations a vehicle needs after a repair is one thing — documenting it in a way that satisfies an insurance company is another. That is where estimate scrubbing software comes in. These platforms analyze a repair estimate and generat …
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If you're working on Ford and Lincoln vehicles, you've probably noticed that Ford doesn't run on a single diagnostic platform. Depending on the model year of the vehicle in front of you, you may be working with IDS, FDRS, or FJDS, sometimes all three. Understanding how these tools fit together, what hardware they require, and what coverage they provide will save you a lot of fr …
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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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