Your Buick Regal doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably plausible, in fact that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Buick Regal ? You are on the good website, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and solve your concerns connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Buick Regal, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Buick Regal
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to show you the purpose and operation of the immobilizer in your Buick Regal. This electronic element was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Buick Regal. 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 Regal will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one asked 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 device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Buick Regal
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer allows your Buick Regal to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Buick Regal, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not execute a less important process to reestablish the normal start of your car. In fact, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Buick Regal), 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 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, repeat the process until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Buick Regal to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Buick Regal 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 Regal. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Buick Regal 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 Regal.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Buick Regal, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Buick Regal 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 Regal 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 benefit people with bad intentions.
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