Your Chevrolet Suburban doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes 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 Suburban ? You are in the right place, we have made this content to help you see more clearly and resolve your trouble linked to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Chevrolet Suburban, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Chevrolet Suburban
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Chevrolet Suburban. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Chevrolet Suburban. 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 Suburban will go each time you insert 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 unit will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Suburban
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer allows your Chevrolet Suburban to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Chevrolet Suburban, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less important procedure to restore 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 Suburban), 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 confirm the digit and resume, repeat the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should let you start your Chevrolet Suburban without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Chevrolet Suburban still doesn’t want to start, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Chevrolet Suburban. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Chevrolet Suburban 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 Suburban.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Chevrolet Suburban, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Chevrolet Suburban would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Suburban has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Chevrolet Suburban, do not hesitate to consult our Chevrolet Suburban category.
