Your BMW i3 doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your BMW i3 ? You are in the right place, we have created this content to help you see more clearly and solve your concerns related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your BMW i3, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on BMW i3
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your BMW i3. This electronic component was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your BMW i3. Indeed, 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 BMW i3 will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will let you 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 BMW i3
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your BMW i3 to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your BMW i3, 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 significant operation to reestablish the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your BMW i3), 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 car 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 full code. This should let you start your BMW i3 without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your BMW i3 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 device from your BMW i3. Indeed, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your BMW i3 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 BMW i3.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your BMW i3, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your BMW i3 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your BMW i3 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.
To find more tips on the BMW i3, take a look at the BMW i3 category.
