Your Audi S5 doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly 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 S5 ? You are on the good article, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Audi S5, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Audi S5
Before detailing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to explain the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Audi S5. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Audi S5. 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 Audi S5 will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls 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 enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Audi S5
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Audi S5 to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Audi S5, 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 important operation to reestablish 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 Audi S5), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Audi S5 to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If despite a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Audi S5 still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Audi S5. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Audi S5 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 Audi S5.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Audi S5, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Audi S5 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, 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 S5 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 benefit people with bad intentions.
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