Method and apparatus for adapting a component of an internal combustion engine

The present invention relates to a method for adapting a component (310) of an internal combustion engine, in particular a component of a fuel metering system of an internal combustion engine, in which is provided in particular that to be adapted deviations of the component are distinguished by aging-related deviations and scattering series deviations that be adapted by serial dispersion deviations by an operation performed at the end of the preparation of component initial adaptation (350), and that are adapted by aging-related deviations in the operation of the internal combustion engine or of the fuel metering system (355, 360).