Your Alfa Romeo Mito doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, indeed 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 Alfa Romeo Mito ? You are on the good article, we have created this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your concerns related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Alfa Romeo Mito, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Alfa Romeo Mito
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Alfa Romeo Mito. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Alfa Romeo Mito. In fact, thanks to a transponder and an antenna (coil) included in the key, and, a immobilisation control box included in the ECU and a reception antenna on the neiman, your Alfa Romeo Mito will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, 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 alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Mito
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Alfa Romeo Mito to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Alfa Romeo Mito, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not accomplish a less important operation to restore the normal start of your vehicle. In fact, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Alfa Romeo Mito), 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 vehicle 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, duplicate the operation until you have entered the full code. This should let you start your Alfa Romeo Mito without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If despite a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Alfa Romeo Mito still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Alfa Romeo Mito. In fact, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Alfa Romeo Mito key. Determined by who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a copy 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 Mito.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Alfa Romeo Mito, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Alfa Romeo Mito 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Alfa Romeo Mito has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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