Your Chrysler Sebring doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably plausible, indeed 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 Chrysler Sebring ? You are on the good website, we have made this article to support you see more clearly and fix your problems connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Chrysler Sebring, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Chrysler Sebring
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Chrysler Sebring. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Chrysler Sebring. Indeed, 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 Chrysler Sebring will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks 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 allow you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Chrysler Sebring
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Chrysler Sebring to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Chrysler Sebring, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not execute a less significant operation to bring back 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 Chrysler Sebring), 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Chrysler Sebring to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Chrysler Sebring still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Chrysler Sebring. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened 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 dealer who can fix your Chrysler Sebring key. Based 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Chrysler Sebring.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Chrysler Sebring, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Chrysler Sebring would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Chrysler Sebring has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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