Your Audi Sq5 doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite 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 Sq5 ? You are on the good article, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and solve your problems connected to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Audi Sq5, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Audi Sq5
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Audi Sq5. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Audi Sq5. 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 Sq5 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 moment, 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 solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Audi Sq5
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer enables your Audi Sq5 to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Audi Sq5, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not accomplish a less important operation to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Audi Sq5), 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 operation until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Audi Sq5 without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Audi Sq5 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 Sq5. Actually, your transponder must have been affected 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 dealer who can repair your Audi Sq5 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 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 Sq5.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Audi Sq5, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Audi Sq5 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 Audi Sq5 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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