Your Acura TL doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, in fact that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Acura TL ? You are in the right place, we have created this post to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble related to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Acura TL, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Acura TL
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Acura TL. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Acura TL. Actually, thanks to a transponder and an antenna (coil) integrated in the key, and, a immobilisation control box integrated in the ECU and a reception antenna on the neiman, your Acura TL will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will permit you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Acura TL
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer allows your Acura TL to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Acura TL, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not do a less important procedure to restore the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Acura TL), but if you don’t have it you should at least have the “code card”, it includes the start code. Thanks to this code, you will still be able to start your automobile by entering it manually. To do this, turn on the ignition, use your centralized button to enter the digits, several quick presses (example: 2 for digit 2) then a stop of one and a half seconds to confirm the digit and resume, replicate the procedure until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Acura TL without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Acura TL still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Acura TL. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Acura TL key. Depending on who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a duplicate or your “code card” and about 350 euros at your car dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Acura TL.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Acura TL, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Acura TL would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Acura TL has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
In the event that you have any additional questions about the Acura TL, do not hesitate to consult our Acura TL category.
