Your Citroen C4 Cactus doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Citroen C4 Cactus ? You are on the good article, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and fix your trouble related to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Citroen C4 Cactus, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Citroen C4 Cactus
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Citroen C4 Cactus. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Citroen C4 Cactus. In fact, 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 Citroen C4 Cactus 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 required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will let you start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Citroen C4 Cactus
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer allows your Citroen C4 Cactus to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Citroen C4 Cactus, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less significant procedure to reestablish 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 Citroen C4 Cactus), 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 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 procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Citroen C4 Cactus without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Citroen C4 Cactus 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 C4 Cactus. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Citroen C4 Cactus 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 Citroen C4 Cactus.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Citroen C4 Cactus, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Citroen C4 Cactus 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. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Citroen C4 Cactus has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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