Vehicles Involved In Collisions, Evaluating, Basic Principles

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When servicing components on vehicles involved in collisions, damage can remain undiscovered.
Undiscovered damage could lead to serious subsequent damage when driving later.
Recommendation: have accident damage assessed by an automotive engineering expert.
Check the DTC memory entries using the Vehicle Diagnostic Tester.
Process any DTC memory entries that have been set.
Once repaired, check the affected systems once more for DTC memory entries.