Your Dacia Duster doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, in fact 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 Dacia Duster ? You are in the right place, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and solve your concerns related to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Dacia Duster, then the different techniques to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Dacia Duster

Before detailing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Dacia Duster. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Dacia Duster. 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 Dacia Duster 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 expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will permit 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 Dacia Duster

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First procedure, your key no longer allows your Dacia Duster to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Dacia Duster, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not perform a less important process to restore the normal start of your vehicle. In fact, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Dacia Duster), 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 vehicle 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 allow your Dacia Duster to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If despite a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Dacia Duster 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 Dacia Duster. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Dacia Duster key. Determined by 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Dacia Duster.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Dacia Duster, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Dacia Duster would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Dacia Duster 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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