Your Alfa Romeo Giulia doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite possible, actually that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Giulia ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your problems relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Alfa Romeo Giulia, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Alfa Romeo Giulia
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to show you the purpose and operation of the immobilizer in your Alfa Romeo Giulia. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Alfa Romeo Giulia. In fact, 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will let you turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Giulia
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Alfa Romeo Giulia to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Alfa Romeo Giulia, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less significant process to bring back the normal start of your car. In fact, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Alfa Romeo Giulia), 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 car 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 validate the digit and resume, replicate the process until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Alfa Romeo Giulia to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Alfa Romeo Giulia still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Alfa Romeo Giulia. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Alfa Romeo Giulia 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Alfa Romeo Giulia, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Alfa Romeo Giulia would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Giulia has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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