Your Buick Encore doesn’t want to start? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Buick Encore ? You are on the good article, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Buick Encore, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Buick Encore
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Buick Encore. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Buick Encore. 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 Buick Encore will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one expected 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 solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Buick Encore
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer allows your Buick Encore to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Buick Encore, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not accomplish a less important operation to restore the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Buick Encore), 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, repeat the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Buick Encore without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If despite a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Buick Encore still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Buick Encore. In fact, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Buick Encore key. Depending on who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a copy or your “code card” and about 350 euros at your car 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 Encore.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Buick Encore, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Buick Encore 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Buick Encore has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages 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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