BMW ADAS Calibration. From £162 Per System.
Driving Assistant or Active Guard warning on your 3 Series, X3 or i4 after a windscreen replacement, and a dealer price that only arrives after an inspection. You pay per system calibrated, at the same network rate wherever you are in the UK. Your quote is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
- Calibration runs to full manufacturer specification.
- A diagnostic scan, when your job needs one, is priced and itemised separately.
- Certificate to manufacturer tolerances, the same standard dealers issue.
ADAS Line vs the BMW dealer
ADAS Line
- Per system, from £162 inc VAT, every rate published
- Written quote before any work runs
- Diagnostic scan itemised as its own line, only when the job needs one
- Often within the week, depending on centre availability
- Nearest of 80+ UK service centres
Main dealer
- £300 to £900 in quotes customers have shown us
- Inspection fee often charged separately
- Diagnostic, labour and parts itemised on the invoice
- Phone the dealer, wait for the callback, take the slot you're offered
- Your single designated dealer location
How calibration works
- 1
Send your details
Quick form, about 60 seconds. Your registration, what's been done or what's wrong, and how to reach you.
- 2
We match you to a service centre
We route your enquiry to the nearest service centre set up for your make. They confirm the itemised quote and the appointment with you direct, in writing, before anything is booked.
- 3
Calibration and certificate
The centre runs the manufacturer-spec calibration and issues your certificate on completion. Any diagnostic scan the job needs is itemised on the quote, never folded in silently.
BMW calibration prices
Network rates, the same at every service centre, whichever BMW is on the ramp. Every price is per system, shown inc VAT with the net figure alongside. Your total is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Calibration — per system
After a part was replaced (includes coding to your vehicle)
- When your job needs a diagnostic scan, it's £54 inc VAT (£45 +VAT), always itemised as its own line. It shows which systems were live before work started.
- Two or more systems in one visit: the highest-priced system is full price, each additional system is 35% off at a centre. Scans aren't part of the discount. Front camera and front radar together come to £267.30 inc VAT (£222.75 +VAT).
- On mobile trade visits only: if the technician attends and the calibration can't be completed, a sensor fitted misaligned for example, a call-out fee of up to £72 inc VAT (£60 +VAT) applies.
- Mobile calibration is available for garages and bodyshops with workshop conditions. Ask us.
BMW ADAS warnings we cover
The windscreen walkthrough covers the most common BMW trigger in detail.
- SymptomsRead more
ADAS after windscreen
Driving Assistant warning after a new windscreen? The KAFAS camera sits on the glass, so every replacement moves it. The walkthrough from warning to certificate, priced per system.
BMW models we cover
Older models with ADAS retrofits are case-by-case. Send your registration to confirm coverage.
Frequently asked questions
The KAFAS camera, the forward camera mounted behind your windscreen, has moved with the glass. It's fixed to a mount on the screen itself, so a replacement never puts it back at exactly the old aim, and Driving Assistant, Lane Departure Warning and Speed Limit Info all flag together because they read the road through that one camera.
The fix is a static calibration: car level on the calibration floor, target board at BMW's documented distance for your model, camera re-aimed and verified against specification. On the rate card that's a single system, front camera calibration, £162 inc VAT (£135 +VAT) at a centre.
Error 482136 is the long-range front radar reporting an aim outside its stored tolerance. The radar measures in fractions of a degree, so work that never touched it directly can still tip it out: a bumper repair, a front-end knock, or a wheel alignment that changed the geometry the radar was calibrated against.
The alignment link surprises people. After tracking adjustment the car points slightly differently, and the radar's stored reference no longer matches, which is why garages that spot it recommend running the radar calibration alongside the alignment. The calibration re-aims the radar to the car as it sits now and clears the maladjustment state, £162 inc VAT (£135 +VAT) at a centre. Your quote is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Yes. The X1 U11 runs a newer KAFAS camera generation than the X3 G01, and the values that make a calibration valid, target board distance, mounting reference, aim tolerance, are set per model rather than per badge. Same marque, two different procedures.
In practice that changes nothing about where you go. The centre pulls the documented procedure for the exact model on the ramp, sets the board to that model's distance, and runs the aim against that model's reference. The certificate names the model and the procedure that was run. Either generation books as one front camera calibration, £162 inc VAT (£135 +VAT) at a centre. Send the registration when you enquire and the scope is confirmed before you book.
The centre confirms timing when they take the booking, and a single-system calibration is planned as one visit, one certificate, with the camera aim priced at £162 inc VAT (£135 +VAT). That covers what makes a camera calibration valid: the car level and at its correct weight, the KAFAS target board squared to the camera at the documented distance, then the static aim itself and the verification pass.
One thing worth knowing: a glass fitter clearing the warning is not a calibration. The message can stay off for a few drives and come back, because the camera's aim was never corrected. If the screen was replaced and nobody set a target board in front of the car, the calibration is still outstanding. A diagnostic scan, when your job needs one, is priced and itemised separately.
Usually not the camera, no. The KAFAS camera lives on the windscreen and a bumper job doesn't touch it. What a bumper change does disturb is the long-range radar low in the front bumper and the parking sensors seated in the bumper skin, so those are the systems that come back needing attention.
The same goes for a respray. The warning on the dash afterwards won't clear on its own, because clearing codes doesn't re-aim anything; the radar needs calibrating once the bumper is back on the car: £162 inc VAT (£135 +VAT) at a centre. If the parking sensors flag as well, that second system is £184.80 inc VAT (£154 +VAT), and the cheaper of the two is 35% off in the same visit.
Dealer quotes customers have shown us for ADAS work run £300 to £900, and the total usually lands after the car has already been in for an inspection. The procedure behind those quotes is the same documented BMW calibration that runs at our centres; a franchise bill is built from the workshop's hourly labour rate rather than the system count.
Front camera calibration is £162 inc VAT (£135 +VAT), front radar is the same, with the full rate card on this page. Two or more systems in one visit: the highest-priced system is full price and each additional system is 35% off at a centre. Certificate to manufacturer tolerances, the same standard dealers issue.
Book your BMW's ADAS calibration
Send your registration and what's been done. We come back with the price, the nearest service centre, and the soonest slot.