Your Citroen C3 Aircross doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Citroen C3 Aircross ? You are in the right place, we have made this content to help you see more clearly and fix your problems relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Citroen C3 Aircross, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Citroen C3 Aircross
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Citroen C3 Aircross. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Citroen C3 Aircross. 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 Citroen C3 Aircross will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will enable 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 Citroen C3 Aircross
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your Citroen C3 Aircross to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Citroen C3 Aircross, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not perform a less significant operation to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Citroen C3 Aircross), 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 confirm the digit and resume, repeat the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Citroen C3 Aircross without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Citroen C3 Aircross 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 Citroen C3 Aircross. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Citroen C3 Aircross 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 Citroen C3 Aircross.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Citroen C3 Aircross, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Citroen C3 Aircross 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Citroen C3 Aircross 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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