NASTF, in partnership with Launch Tech USA, announced the official start of the Aftermarket Scan Tool Validation Program.

This innovative program is set to provide aftemarket shops and service professionals as well as locksmiths with secure access to essential key and immobilizer information. 

Through the program, Vehicle Security Professionals (VSPs) in the U.S. and Canada will need a NASTF VSP ID to use an aftermarket scan tool to perform security functions including:

• Add a key
• All keys lost
• Immobilizer functions
• Any other process that the OE determines to be security related.

A key reason for introducing the aftermarket scan tool verficiation program is to combat scan tool theft; there have been reported cases of shops and mobile repairers being robbed at gunpoint by criminals looking to steal scan tools to assist in vehicle theft.

The voluntary scan tool verficiation program–which OEM tool suppliers are said to have signed onto as well as aftermarket tool manufacturers–is designed to combat theft due to the multi-factor authentication requirement.

Without that two-fact authentication, the scan tool would not activate the required to perform security related tasks.

Service professionals will be responsible for verifying the identity of the vehicle owner, but will not be required to fill out a D1 form, aka an Authorization for Automotive Key Generation and/or Immobilizer System / Anti-Theft Services form, as would be the case prior to the new program.. 

The tool and NASTF will take care of this process behind the scenes.

Scan tool makers have the capability to offer both online and offline functionality.

NASTF had previously recommended that service professionls who do not have a VSP ID should apply as soon as possible to avoid any potential interruption of the business.

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