Your Chevrolet Volt doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, indeed that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Volt ? You are in the right place, we have created this content to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble connected to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Chevrolet Volt, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Chevrolet Volt
Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Chevrolet Volt. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Chevrolet Volt. 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 Volt will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will enable you to turn on your car. 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 Volt
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Chevrolet Volt to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Chevrolet Volt, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not perform a less important procedure to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Chevrolet Volt), 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 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 validate the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Chevrolet Volt without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If in spite of a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Chevrolet Volt still doesn’t want to start, 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 Volt. Actually, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Chevrolet Volt 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 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 Volt.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Chevrolet Volt, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Chevrolet Volt 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 realizes that the immobiliser on your Chevrolet Volt 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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