Your Citroen Jumper doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite 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 Citroen Jumper ? You are in the right place, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and solve your concerns linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Citroen Jumper, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Citroen Jumper
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to show you the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Citroen Jumper. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Citroen Jumper. 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 Citroen Jumper will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it checks 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 start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Citroen Jumper
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer enables your Citroen Jumper to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Citroen Jumper, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not do a less important process 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 Citroen Jumper), 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, duplicate the process until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Citroen Jumper without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Citroen Jumper still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Citroen Jumper. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Citroen Jumper 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Citroen Jumper.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Citroen Jumper, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Citroen Jumper 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. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Citroen Jumper has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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