Your Buick Enclave doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem originates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Buick Enclave ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and solve your problems linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Buick Enclave, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Buick Enclave
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Buick Enclave. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Buick Enclave. 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 Buick Enclave will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will allow you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Buick Enclave
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer permits your Buick Enclave to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Buick Enclave, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not perform a less important operation to reestablish 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 Buick Enclave), 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 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 full code. This should enable you to start your Buick Enclave without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Buick Enclave 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 Buick Enclave. Actually, your transponder must have been damaged 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 Buick Enclave 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 Buick Enclave.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Buick Enclave, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Buick Enclave 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. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Buick Enclave 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 help people with bad intentions.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Buick Enclave, do not hesitate to consult our Buick Enclave category.
