Cameras and radar put back in aim. We tell you how many your car needs before we book, and we come to your driveway or your work.
Send your reg and what work was done. We will tell you how many calibrations it needs and the total — before anything is booked.
£180 +VAT is the price of one calibration, not of every job — and we’d rather you knew that now than on the driveway.
Your car's safety systems don't share one sensor. They share a view of the world, and each one builds it from different hardware in a different place on the car.
The camera behind the windscreen. Bonded to a bracket on the inside of the glass, just ahead of the mirror. It reads lane markings, traffic, signs and pedestrians. Its aim is set to a fraction of a degree, because a tiny error at the bracket becomes a metre of error by the time it's judging a car fifty metres up the road.
The radar behind the grille. Usually mounted behind the badge or lower grille, sometimes behind the bumper skin. It measures distance and closing speed for adaptive cruise and automatic emergency braking. Take the bumper off, hit a kerb hard, or change the ride height, and its aim moves.
The corner and side sensors. Blind spot and cross-traffic radar in the rear bumper corners; 360° cameras in the mirrors, grille and tailgate. Each has its own reference and its own procedure.
Which is why the honest answer to “how much?” starts with “which systems does your car have, and what got moved?” Each system that's been disturbed is a separate calibration, done separately and charged separately. We find out from your registration before you commit to anything.
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Reg first, price second, calibration third — nothing is a surprise at any step.
Registration, postcode, and what work was done. Thirty seconds by form, WhatsApp or phone.
We check which ADAS systems your car actually has and which need doing, and give you the total before you commit. One calibration or two — you'll know which before we book.
Home, work, or your garage's yard. Static calibration needs a level, reasonably clear space in front of the car — a normal driveway or a workshop bay is fine. We bring everything.
Static targets and/or a dynamic road drive as your manufacturer specifies, a diagnostic check to confirm the systems are live and fault-free.
Calibration is almost always attached to something else you've just had done.
The most common reason by a mile. The camera bracket comes off with the old glass and goes back on the new one by hand. Even a perfect fit means the camera is looking through different glass from a slightly different place.
Not just big ones. A bumper removed and refitted, a wing repaired, a grille replaced — anything that touches where the radar or a corner sensor lives.
Alignment, springs, shocks, steering rack, ride-height changes. The sensors are aimed relative to the car's thrust line and ride height. Move those, and you've moved the aim without touching the sensor.
Camera removed for a screen replacement or a headlining job, radar unbolted to get at something behind it, a towbar or bumper change.
Front Assist unavailable · ACC deactivated · lane assist not responding · collision warning fault · “clean front radar” · phantom braking. If it arrived after work on the car, calibration is usually the answer.
It is not an MOT item. There is no ADAS calibration check in the MOT, and a lane-assist or Front Assist warning on your dash will not, on its own, fail the test. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. We'd rather tell you the truth and keep the phone number.
It is not, in itself, illegal. There's no law that says “calibrate after new glass”. What the law does say is that your car must be in a roadworthy condition.
Here's the bit that actually matters. These systems don't switch off when they're out of aim. They keep running, on slightly wrong information. A camera aimed a fraction low reads the lane late. A radar aimed a fraction left measures the wrong car. The system still looks like it's working — the icon is lit, the cruise control engages — and you find out it isn't on the one day you needed it. That's the real argument, and it's the only one we make.
Static calibration (targets set up in front of the car) and dynamic calibration (completed on the road) — whichever the manufacturer specifies for your vehicle, and often both. Each of these is a separate calibration procedure. Most cars need one or two. We tell you which from your registration.
Edinburgh has a particular problem with any job that needs your car left somewhere. Between the parking, the bus gates and a New Town where “a clear space in front of the car” is close to a philosophical concept, dropping a vehicle at a workshop out past the bypass for a day is a genuine inconvenience — and calibration is a job nobody ever planned to have. It arrives attached to something else: a chipped windscreen, a car park scrape, a set of new springs.
So we bring the equipment to the vehicle. A driveway in Corstorphine, a business park in Livingston, a bodyshop yard in Loanhead, or a quiet corner of a car park in Bathgate if that is genuinely the flattest, clearest space you have. Static calibration needs level ground and clear space ahead of the car; the dynamic drive is completed on roads near you. Nothing gets left anywhere.
And we cover the corridor properly, not just the EH postcodes — West Lothian, Midlothian, East Lothian and out to Falkirk and Bo’ness are all normal working territory.
Not sure your space works? Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will confirm before booking.
Not on the list? If you are within reasonable reach of Edinburgh or the Forth corridor, send the postcode and we will confirm on the spot.
£180 +VAT per calibration. Most cars need one — the camera behind the windscreen — so that’s the whole bill for most jobs. Some cars need two, most commonly the front camera plus the front radar that runs adaptive cruise and emergency braking, and that’s £360 +VAT. We work out which from your registration and tell you the total before we book anything. You will never get a number on the driveway that you haven’t already agreed on the phone.
Fair question, and the answer is that we tell you before we come out, not after we’re standing next to your car. Which systems your vehicle has is a matter of record — we look it up from the registration and tell you what the manufacturer’s procedure requires. If we get there and it turns out it needs fewer than we quoted, you pay for fewer. It doesn’t move the other way without you agreeing to it first.
Allow an hour or so at your address for a single calibration, more if your car needs more than one or if the manufacturer procedure includes a dynamic road drive. We’ll give you a realistic window when we book, and we’d rather over-estimate than have you waiting.
If nothing on your car has been disturbed and no warning has appeared, you don’t need it. If your windscreen has been replaced, the bumper has been off, or the geometry has been altered on a car with a forward camera or radar, then yes — the aim has moved and the systems are running on it. And if you’re not sure, call us with the reg: if your car doesn’t have the systems, we’ll tell you that on the phone and you’ve lost nothing but two minutes.
No. ADAS calibration is not an MOT test item and a lane assist or Front Assist warning won’t fail the test on its own. We’re not going to pretend otherwise to get a booking. The reason to do it is that the systems only protect you if they’re aimed correctly.
Often, when the calibration follows an insured repair or windscreen replacement — but that’s between you and your insurer, and we can’t promise what they’ll agree to. What we can do is give you the vehicle details, the systems calibrated and the results in writing so you’ve got something to submit, and invoice your fitter or repairer directly if they’d rather handle it.
The procedure is the manufacturer’s either way; the difference is where it happens, how long you wait and what it costs. A dealer will usually want the car in for a day and prices vary enormously by brand. We come to the car, do it while you get on with something else, and the price is £180 +VAT per calibration whatever the badge on the bonnet.
Yes: home, work, or a garage’s premises across Edinburgh, the Lothians, Falkirk & the Forth corridor. For a static calibration we need a level, reasonably clear space in front of the car — a normal driveway or a workshop bay is usually fine. Dynamic calibrations are completed on the road. We bring the targets, the rig and the diagnostics; you don’t supply anything.
No guesswork, no “we'll see when we get there”. Send your registration and what work was done, and we'll come back with exactly how many calibrations your car needs and what the total is — before you commit to anything.
