Your Citroen Nemo doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates 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 Citroen Nemo ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and solve your problems relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Citroen Nemo, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Citroen Nemo
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Citroen Nemo. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Citroen Nemo. Indeed, 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 Nemo will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed 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 possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Citroen Nemo
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Citroen Nemo to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Citroen Nemo, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not perform a less important operation to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Indeed, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Citroen Nemo), 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 whole code. This should allow your Citroen Nemo to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Citroen Nemo still doesn’t want to start, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Citroen Nemo. Indeed, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can fix your Citroen Nemo 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 Citroen Nemo.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Citroen Nemo, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Citroen Nemo would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Citroen Nemo 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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