Replacing the glass moves the camera behind it. Recalibration is what points it correctly again.
Lane keeping, automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control on many vehicles depend on a forward-facing camera mounted at the windshield, calibrated to a precise reference point relative to the vehicle. Replacing the windshield removes and reinstalls that camera's mounting point, and even a small shift in its aim is enough to matter to a system making decisions in fractions of a second.
This is not an optional add-on to a windshield job on a vehicle equipped with one of these systems — it is the completion of it. A shop that hands back a vehicle without recalibrating a camera that needed it has left a safety system aimed at the wrong thing, and there is no way to tell just by looking that it happened.
Tell us about the damage and we will match you with a shop that treats recalibration as part of the job.
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