Your Cadillac DTS doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, indeed that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Cadillac DTS ? You are in the right place, we have created this content to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Cadillac DTS, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Cadillac DTS
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to describe the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Cadillac DTS. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Cadillac DTS. 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 Cadillac DTS will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks 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 start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Cadillac DTS
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your Cadillac DTS to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Cadillac DTS, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not perform a less significant operation to reestablish 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 Cadillac DTS), 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 validate the digit and resume, replicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Cadillac DTS without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Cadillac DTS 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 Cadillac DTS. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Cadillac DTS 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Cadillac DTS.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Cadillac DTS, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Cadillac DTS would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Cadillac DTS 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.
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