Your Chevrolet City Express doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite plausible, in fact 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 Chevrolet City Express ? You are in the right place, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and solve your problems linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Chevrolet City Express, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Chevrolet City Express
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to describe the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Chevrolet City Express. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Chevrolet City Express. Actually, 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 Chevrolet City Express 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 expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will permit 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 Chevrolet City Express
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Chevrolet City Express to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Chevrolet City Express, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not do a less important operation to restore 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 Chevrolet City Express), 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 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 whole code. This should let you start your Chevrolet City Express without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Chevrolet City Express 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 device from your Chevrolet City Express. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened 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 fix your Chevrolet City Express key. Determined by 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Chevrolet City Express.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Chevrolet City Express, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Chevrolet City Express would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Chevrolet City Express 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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