Hunter Engineering Quick Check Drive

Hunter Engineering Quick Check Drive: Hunter Engineering describes Quick Check Drive as a touchless, unmanned alignment inspection system installed in a service lane. A vehicle drives over or past the unit.

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Hunter Engineering Quick Check Drive: Inspection equipment

The system reads alignment measurements without an operator stopping the vehicle or attaching equipment. Tire Review, Brake and Front End and TechShop reported its release.

According to Hunter, the unit uses cameras and laser sensors to scan the tires as the vehicle passes, measuring camber and total toe and also reading edge-to-edge tire tread. The company says it provides instant alignment readings with no human involvement.

So a check can be part of every service visit instead of a separate job.

The system also incorporates a vehicle identification feature that captures the front and rear license plates of each vehicle, tying the readings to a vehicle record. Hunter lists an optional body damage camera that captures many images per vehicle, which is useful for documenting the condition of a car as it arrives.

The software is cloud-based. Hunter announced a cloud-based Inspection Live product for the Quick Check Drive, sold by subscription, with over-the-air specification and software updates.

Hunter says one console can serve two lanes, which affects how a shop plans the installation.

The product is designed to feed a sales conversation: a customer whose alignment or tires read outside specification can be shown the result, which Hunter positions as a way to grow alignment and tire business. Those are the vendor's stated uses, and how a store handles the recommendation is its own policy.

Third-party distributors such as Quality AES publish pages on the Quick Check Drive and the related Quick Tread Edge inspection lane system. So a shop often buys through an equipment distributor and not from Hunter directly.

For a fixed operations director the questions are practical: floor space and lane layout, how the readings appear on the repair order or the advisor's tablet, how the data connects to the DMS and to the service drive workflow, who is responsible for calibration and how it is verified, and how the subscription and hardware are supported. Get it in writing.

Quick Check Drive is hardware in the service lane. Hunter says the unmanned system measures alignment angles, tire tread depth and tire edge wear as a car drives through, in about seven seconds, and also records vehicle images, the license plate and the VIN.

A Dealerlogix integration sends the results to the dealership's fixed ops software automatically. Hunter cites one Toyota store that reported a 300 percent increase in alignment sales after installing it, a single-store figure.

Plan for lane space, power and network access, and ask how readings reach the repair order and who explains the results to the customer.

Hunter Engineering Quick Check Drive functions
Product or service	Function
Inspection equipment	Products including Quick Check Drive, Quick Tread Edge, HawkEye Elite and Inspection Lane.