ST. LOUIS – Hunter Engineering is pleased to announce that Kia has approved Ultimate ADAS^® for its North American dealer and collision repair network.

Kia is Hunter’s first Korean automaker to provide approval, bringing its OEM total to eight for the award-winning alignment and static calibration system, joining Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Acura, Nissan, Infiniti and Subaru.

Additional OEM approvals are expected to be announced in the near future.

“It’s truly been a pleasure to partner with Kia America to approve Ultimate ADAS^® for Kia dealers,” said Kaleb Silver, Hunter Senior Director, Product Management. “Kia is a leader in the ADAS market, and Ultimate ADAS^® gives their dealer and collision network access to the industry-leading ADAS calibration technology to service and document vehicles more efficiently.”

OEM approval serves as a manufacturer’s official endorsement for a product to be used in warranty work, identifying it as a reliable high-quality, high-tech solution.

Ultimate ADAS^® is Hunter’s innovative system for eliminating error-prone manual layouts common to static ADAS calibrations, combining standard-setting alignment technology with an efficient and easy-to-use guided target placement system for around-the-vehicle coverage.

Gimbal-mounted lasers are the key component, replacing the inexact guesswork of strings, plumb bobs and tape measures to cut setup time by 70 percent for some procedures.

The laser gimbals and onscreen guidance dramatically increase target placement precision by automatically compensating for non-level floors, monitoring for placement errors, and confirming accuracy with laser measurements each step of the way.

Critically, Ultimate ADAS^® provides thorough and easy-to-understand documentation, confirming placements, procedures, before-and-after measurements and much more, accessed directly via HunterNet^® 2, Hunter’s customer portal.

Ultimate ADAS^® now includes dynamic and static calibration coverage for a total of 19 OEMs, supporting more than 7,400 static ADAS procedures and accounting for more than 90 percent of vehicles in operation.

For more information, visit https://www.hunter.com/adas-equipment/ultimate-adas.