Automotive Testing

DEKRA puts quality at the beginning. By performing the homologation of your products and vehicles, we help you ensure that your vehicle, components, driver assistants and more meet the applicable international or country-specific regulations. We can already help you involve the relevant quality standards in the development of new vehicles and components, making sure you are well-prepared for when your products needs to go to market.

In addtion, DEKRA's product testing powerhouse has one of the very few specialized automotive lighting test labs that operates across the globe from our base in Europe. With the support of an international branch network, our photometric laboratory undertakes full testing programs. We take care of the entire process for you, saving you the hassle of submitting test samples to different laboratories. Among the services we provide are:

• Vehicle type approval and homologation

• Vehicle parts, components and accessories

• Driving dynamic tests

• Quality assurance

• Benchmarking

Improving safety on our roads has been a matter of importance to DEKRA for over 90 years. This includes testing and assessing the passive safety of all motor vehicles. DEKRA crash test center carries out both development-accompanying and homologation crash tests on behalf of authorities and vehicle manufacturers and thus puts all types of vehicles to the test.

DEKRA’s team of experts is your experienced partner when it comes to testing the required safety of means of transportation. We have tested vehicles in crash tests since 1978, thus contributing a significant part to vehicle and road safety in Europe. In addition to passenger cars, DEKRA also performs crash tests with vans, heavy commercial vehicles, and two-wheelers. We perform among others:

• Standard crash tests

• Consumer crash tests

• Crash tests for racing

• Crash tests for accident reconstruction

• Crash tests on road equipment

• Other crash tests

We test the functionality and capacity for approval of all passive safety systems on the car body as well as interior and exterior components. Our range of services includes every relating to passive safety and child safety and covers all legal requirements for national and international approval procedures. With highly modern impact sleds and acceleration sleds, we put material and components to the test. Possible safety gaps can thus be detected and eliminated. Among our services are:

• Catapult testing

• Test sled/child safety

• Traction equipment

• Pedestrian protection

• Drop tower

• Cargo securing

• Strength tests

DEKRA performs validation and endurance testing in real-life conditions for tires, vehicles, equipment and more. We perform validation tests on open roads and on more than 100 circuits and tracks validated by our customers. By designing the testing methdology, we determine user profiles, rolling profiles, theoretical circuits and more.

With a team specialized in external missions, DEKRA helps customers perform testing and collect data worldwide according to their specifications using cameras, radars and lidars. Missions are performed around the world based on your demands and cover all aspects, from the organization, local recruitment of test drivers and training to data management, acquisition and technical support.

Validating your equipment or vehicles may require the supply of additional vehicles or parts; DEKRA helps you with a large supplier network based on strong relationships in the automotive industry. DEKRA's over 130 daily test drivers perform validation and endurance testing for more than 20 million kilometers per year. With 4 bases in Europe, there's always a test site close to your premises. 

We can also help you with vehicle sourcing and various types of automotive events. With an extensive network around the globe, we can source any type of vehicle you may need for testing or for other types of events. In addition, our experts have a lot of experience with hosting automotive launch events, including creative recommendations to marketing concepts, logistical set-ups and events organization. Finally, we perform test drive coordinations and have decades of experience with mutiple OEMs around the world.