ADAS Calibration Training with Dave Hobbs: Hands-On Workshop in NJ

The Guild Training Center welcomes Dave Hobbs for a full day of hands-on ADAS training — October 9 & 10, 2026.

The car in your bay right now almost certainly has a camera behind the windshield and a radar sensor behind the bumper. Lane keep assist, blind-spot monitoring, adaptive cruise, automatic emergency braking — Advanced Driver Assistance Systems are no longer a luxury-tier feature. They’re standard equipment. And nearly every job that comes across the service drive — a windshield replacement, an alignment, a bumper repair, a suspension component — can knock those systems out of calibration.

That leaves every shop with the same choice: learn to diagnose and calibrate ADAS, or send the work down the road. The shops that can do it are billing for it. The rest are handing that revenue to someone else.

On October 9 and 10, 2026, The Guild Training Center is bringing in nationally recognized trainer Dave Hobbs to close that gap — with a full-day, hands-on class built for working technicians, service advisors, and shop owners.

Not a slideshow — a working session

This is eight hours split down the middle: four hours in the classroom, four hours in the bay. Dave isn’t lecturing from stock photos. He’s bringing the real equipment: the factory Toyota ADAS calibration kit — radar reflector, laser, plumb bob, level, and paper camera targets — plus a factory Toyota scan-tool subscription to initiate live radar and camera calibrations on an actual vehicle, start to finish.

In the classroom

• How Lane Keep Assist, Lane Departure Warning, Blind-Spot Monitor, and Adaptive Cruise actually work
• The hardware behind them — radar, LIDAR, smart cameras, and ultrasonic sensors
• Camera and sensor aiming equipment, plus the windshield and paint concerns that quietly wreck a calibration
• How ADAS ties into ABS, electronic throttle, and electric steering — and the customer complaints that follow
• Static versus dynamic calibration requirements, and how to get them to pass
• Reading diagnostic tool data, service do’s and don’ts, and real-world case studies

In the bay

• A live radar and camera calibration run front to back on a factory scan tool
• Two hands-on methods for testing ultrasonic proximity sensors — one using a lab scope with an inexpensive pickup adapter, the other using a mechanic’s stethoscope
• Hands-on time with a full box of radar and camera ADAS components (Delphi proto-lab samples)
• Dave’s field-tested guidance on following calibration directions to the letter — and working around the cyber-security lockouts that cause ADAS service “fails”

And because eight hours is a long day, Dave mixes in a few clips of self-driving cars — and drivers — doing their dumbest work. You’ll laugh, and you’ll leave knowing more than the shop down the street.

Who should be in the room

The class is built for automotive technicians who want to add ADAS calibration to what they can bill for. It’s also valuable for service advisors and shop owners who need to explain this work to customers with confidence. Some diagnostic and electrical background helps, but the day is structured to take you from “I’ve heard of it” to “I can quote it.”

Dates, location, and tuition

• When: Thursday, October 9 or Friday, October 10, 2026. The same class runs both days — attend just one.
• Where: The Guild Training Center, 79 NJ-23, Hamburg, NJ.
• Tuition: $399 per seat, or $349 early-bird. One registration covers one attendee for one day, and includes lunch.

Seating is limited by the hands-on format, so each day caps out at a small class size. Early registration is the safe move.

Your employer may be able to cover it

If you’re a New Jersey employee, your employer may be able to fund this training through an Incumbent Worker Training grant — up to $5,000 per trainee — administered through the county Workforce Development Board. It’s real money set aside to upgrade the skills of existing staff, and ADAS calibration is exactly the kind of in-demand skill these grants are meant to support. Ask us how it works.

Reserve your seat

Registration is open now. Seats are limited and the hands-on format fills fast.

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