Your Chevrolet Impala doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Impala ? You are in the right place, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your problems related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Chevrolet Impala, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Chevrolet Impala
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to show you the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Chevrolet Impala. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Chevrolet Impala. 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 Impala will go each time you place 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 instant, that it will enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Impala
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Chevrolet Impala to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Chevrolet Impala, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not execute a less important operation to restore the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Chevrolet Impala), 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 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 full code. This should let you start your Chevrolet Impala without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Chevrolet Impala 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 Impala. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Chevrolet Impala key. Depending on 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 Impala.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Chevrolet Impala, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Chevrolet Impala would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Impala 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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