Your Audi Q5 doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably plausible, 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 Audi Q5 ? You are on the good website, we have written this post to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Audi Q5, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Audi Q5
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Audi Q5. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Audi Q5. Actually, 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 Audi Q5 will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one expected 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 unit will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Audi Q5
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Audi Q5 to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Audi Q5, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not do a less important operation to restore the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Audi Q5), but if you don’t have it you should at least have the “code card”, it contains 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Audi Q5 to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Audi Q5 still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Audi Q5. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Audi Q5 key. Determined by 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Audi Q5.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Audi Q5, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Audi Q5 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Audi Q5 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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