Automotive Environmental Testing

The range of simulated and accelerated Automotive Environmental Testing options provided by Intertek brings your automotive products an assurance that they are ready to weather any environmental challenges that may come their way, rain or shine—or freezing temperatures and corrosive salt.

With Environmental Testing Services available for domestic and foreign automotive manufacturers, Intertek examines the effect outside forces will have on everything from raw materials to fully assembled automotive products. Test options such as accelerated aging, sunload testing, cure/solvent rub, perspiration resistance, adhesion, and many more can bring attention to needed changes or upgrades, as well as help ensure products will perform to optimal consumer satisfaction.

Weathering Your Environmental Testing Program

Materials that can undergo Automotive Environmental Testing from Intertek include metal, plastic, elastomer, glass, wood and coatings. Intertek is able to certify to a variety of necessary standards and uses the industry’s latest methods. Combined with Materials, Durability, Vibration, Electrical, EMC and VOC testing, Intertek Environmental Testing provides a vital component of comprehensive, single-point product analysis and verification.

Environmental Performance Testing:

Accelerated Stress Testing (AST) – Accelerated Reliability, Failure Mode Verification Testing (FMVT), HALT/HASS/Step Stress Testing, Key Life Testing, Multi Environment Overstress Testing (MEOST)

Exposure/Contaminants Testing – Water Spray, High-Pressure Spray, Salt Spray Cyclic Heat, Ingress Protection (IP) Testing, Chemical Resistance

Flammability Testing – Plastics testing to determine the relative rate of burning per ASTM D635, ISO 3795

Simulated Environmental Performance – Explosion, Immersion, Humidity, and Altitude Simulation Testing, as well as Thermal Aging, Thermal Shock Testing, and Thermal Cycling

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Testing – Identify and analyze gaseous VOC constituents emitted from automotive materials

Weathering Testing – Expose your automotive materials, parts and components to a range of environmental extremes and ambient conditions per these standards and more: ASTM G154, ASTM D2565, ASTM D4329, ASTM D4587, ISO 4892, VDA 75202, PV 3929, PV 3930, E J1885, SAE J1960

Road Vehicles – Environmental conditions and testing for electrical and electronic equipment based on ISO 16750 series

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