Pro-Align Announces UK Arrival of Hunter CodeLink SAS Resetting Tool

As a provider of advanced wheel alignment systems to the UK market, Northamptonshire-based company Pro-Align stresses the advantage of cutting edge equipment from the point of view of both service quality and commercial opportunity. Its latest product from US garage equipment manufacturer Hunter – the Hunter CodeLink – fits this bill, both catering for models in the Audi, BMW, Lexus, Chevrolet, Mini, Toyota and Volkswagen ranges and anticipating the increase in popularity of Electronic Stability Control in new cars; a system that will become a requirement in all new cars from 2012.

Many vehicles carrying ESC possess a steering angle sensor, which must be reset after an alignment service is performed. Until now, Pro-Align states, this has only been achievable by using an original equipment calibration tool found at the dealership. The CodeLink delivers this capability to the aftermarket, enabling independent workshops to carry out the procedure as part of the process of wheel alignment using the Hunter HawkEye imaging system (operating Winalign11). CodeLink recalibrates the vehicle’s steering angle sensor to match the final alignment angles of the vehicle, which ensures the proper functioning of the ESC.

The process of integrating the CodeLink’s operation into the wheel alignment process was demonstrated to Tyrepress.com, with the reset procedure fitting seamlessly and swiftly into the existing HawkEye system. CodeLink also standardises the reset procedure across models and brands, making it suitable for any vehicle fitted with a steering angle sensor and therefore opening to independents the opportunity to offer customers the service previously available exclusively through dealerships.

The CodeLink has been in operation in the USA for several months, picking up plaudits and, according to Pro-Align, becoming the deciding factor for customers’ purchase of the wheel alignment service “over and above other alignment equipment brands”. Therefore, believes Pro-Align, the Hunter HawkEye Imaging System equipped with CodeLink “offers a second level to the Four Wheel Alignment servicing process and an opportunity to increase alignment service revenue substantially further.