Your Chevrolet Corvette doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, actually 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 Chevrolet Corvette ? You are on the good article, we have created this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Chevrolet Corvette, then the different methods to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Chevrolet Corvette

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Chevrolet Corvette. This electronic component was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Chevrolet Corvette. Actually, 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 Chevrolet Corvette will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, 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 alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Corvette

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First process, your key no longer allows your Chevrolet Corvette to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Chevrolet Corvette, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not execute a less significant operation to reestablish the normal start of your car. Actually, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Chevrolet Corvette), 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 validate the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Chevrolet Corvette without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If in spite of a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Chevrolet Corvette 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 system from your Chevrolet Corvette. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Chevrolet Corvette 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Chevrolet Corvette.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Chevrolet Corvette, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Chevrolet Corvette would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Corvette 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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