Patent ID: 7685872

Claim:
A meted for automatic vehicle testing, inspection and valuation for a manual front wheel drive vehicle, said method comprising: connecting a probe for an emission test to the exhaust pipe; connecting an rpm cable to the cigarette lighter before starting the test; driving in so that the front wheels of the vehicle enter a Vehicle Characteristic Tester (VCT) rollers; running the vehicle to 60 km/h and then shifting to 3rd gear; accelerating to maximum rpm before shifting to neutral; waiting until vehicle speed drops back to 60 km/h and after 3 seconds applying the brakes to stop; advancing the vehicle until the rear wheels engage the VCT rollers and after 3 seconds the rollers start rolling up to 90 km/h; pumping the foot brake systematically until the speed drops to 20 km/h, and then operating the parking brake to stop; automatically checking and printing at least one parameter graph; evaluating and printing at least one parameter relative to the model and year of the vehicle; and evaluating the overall vehicle relative to the model and year of the vehicle.