Your Cadillac ATS doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, 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 Cadillac ATS ? You are in the right place, we have written this content to support you see more clearly and fix your trouble relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Cadillac ATS, then the different techniques to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Cadillac ATS

Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Cadillac ATS. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Cadillac ATS. In fact, 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 Cadillac ATS will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.

The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Cadillac ATS

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First procedure, your key no longer allows your Cadillac ATS to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Cadillac ATS, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to bring back 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 Cadillac ATS), 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 validate the digit and resume, replicate the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should let you start your Cadillac ATS without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If in spite of a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Cadillac ATS still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Cadillac ATS. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged 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 restore your Cadillac ATS 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 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 Cadillac ATS.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Cadillac ATS, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Cadillac ATS would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Cadillac ATS 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.

Whenever you have any additional questions about the Cadillac ATS, do not hesitate to consult our Cadillac ATS category.