Vehicles Involved In Collisions, Evaluating, Basic Principles
- When servicing components on vehicles involved in collisions, damage can remain undiscovered.
- Undiscovered damage could lead to serious subsequent damage when driving later.
- Recommendation: have accident damage assessed by an automotive engineering expert.
- Check the DTC memory entries using the Vehicle Diagnostic Tester .
- Process any DTC memory entries that have been set.
- Once repaired, check the affected systems once more for DTC memory entries.