Your Chrysler Town & Country doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, in fact that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Chrysler Town & Country ? You are in the right place, we have created this post to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Chrysler Town & Country, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Chrysler Town & Country
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Chrysler Town & Country. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Chrysler Town & Country. In fact, 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 Chrysler Town & Country 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 required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, 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 Chrysler Town & Country
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer enables your Chrysler Town & Country to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Chrysler Town & Country, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not perform a less important operation to bring back the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Chrysler Town & Country), 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 automobile 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 enable you to start your Chrysler Town & Country without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If despite a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Chrysler Town & Country still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Chrysler Town & Country. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged 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 repair your Chrysler Town & Country key. Based on 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 Chrysler Town & Country.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Chrysler Town & Country, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Chrysler Town & Country would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Chrysler Town & Country has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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