Your Alfa Romeo Giulietta doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, actually that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta ? You are on the good website, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your trouble linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Alfa Romeo Giulietta. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta. 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 Giulietta 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 permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer allows your Alfa Romeo Giulietta to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not do a less significant procedure to bring back the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Alfa Romeo Giulietta), 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 whole code. This should allow your Alfa Romeo Giulietta 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 Giulietta still doesn’t want to start, 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 Giulietta. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Alfa Romeo Giulietta key. Based 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 Giulietta.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Alfa Romeo Giulietta, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Alfa Romeo Giulietta would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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