Starting with 2018/2019 vehicle models, FCA, now known as Stellantis, started integrating a security gateway module designed to protect vehicle networks from unauthorized access. Today, most of the new vehicles under the Stellantis name – Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Fiat, and Alfa Romeo – have that security gateway module. Nissan started to implement similar security modules in some of its 2020 model-year vehicles.
However, the module also prevents aftermarket diagnostic tools from conducting meaningful diagnostic tasks and performing many service resets and calibrations. Even basic tasks such as erasing codes or relearning TPMS sensor IDs are restricted.
Thankfully for shop technicians, AutoAuth, a subscription-based platform, was developed to allow OE-approved aftermarket diagnostics scan tools to access the security gateway module on these security module-equipped vehicles.
Autel tablets were approved by FCA in June of 2020 for gateway access and recently by Nissan. Via AutoAuth, shops and technicians can register themselves and their scan tools for gateway access to the systems behind the security module and perform the necessary tests, services, and actions. All Autel tablets can be registered with AutoAuth and used on these late-model Stellantis and Nissan vehicles.
More automakers are starting to implement security modules in their new vehicles. So, the next time you are in the market for a scan tool, ensure it’s authorized to work on the vehicles that come into your shop.
This video is sponsored by Autel.
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