Your Dacia Logan doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly 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 Dacia Logan ? You are on the good website, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and fix your concerns linked to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Dacia Logan, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Dacia Logan
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Dacia Logan. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Dacia Logan. 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 Dacia Logan will go each time you insert 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 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 Logan
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer enables your Dacia Logan to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Dacia Logan, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not accomplish a less important operation to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Dacia Logan), 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Dacia Logan to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If despite a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Dacia Logan still doesn’t want to start, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Dacia Logan. Actually, your transponder must have been injured 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 dealer who can repair your Dacia Logan 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 Dacia Logan.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Dacia Logan, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Dacia Logan would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Dacia Logan has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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