Your Chevrolet Equinox doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Equinox ? You are on the good website, we have written this content to support you see more clearly and fix your problems relating to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Chevrolet Equinox, then the different techniques to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Chevrolet Equinox

Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to show you the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Chevrolet Equinox. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Chevrolet Equinox. Indeed, 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 Equinox will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks 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 allow you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Equinox

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First process, your key no longer enables your Chevrolet Equinox to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Chevrolet Equinox, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not do a less important process to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. Indeed, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Chevrolet Equinox), 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 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the process until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Chevrolet Equinox without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If in spite of a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Chevrolet Equinox still doesn’t want to start, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Chevrolet Equinox. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Chevrolet Equinox 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 Equinox.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Chevrolet Equinox, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Chevrolet Equinox would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 Chevrolet Equinox has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.

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