Your BMW X5 doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, actually 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 X5 ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your BMW X5, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on BMW X5
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to explain the role and operation of the immobilizer in your BMW X5. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your BMW X5. 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 BMW X5 will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one expected 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 device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your BMW X5
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer permits your BMW X5 to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your BMW X5, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not execute a less important process 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 BMW X5), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the process until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your BMW X5 without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your BMW X5 still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your BMW X5. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your BMW X5 key. Depending 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 X5.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your BMW X5, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your BMW X5 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your BMW X5 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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