Your Dodge Avenger doesn’t want to start? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, actually that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Dodge Avenger ? You are on the good article, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and fix your trouble linked to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Dodge Avenger, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Dodge Avenger
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Dodge Avenger. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Dodge Avenger. Actually, 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 Dodge Avenger will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Dodge Avenger
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your Dodge Avenger to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Dodge Avenger, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not do a less important operation to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Dodge Avenger), 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 operation until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Dodge Avenger without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If despite a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Dodge Avenger 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 device from your Dodge Avenger. Actually, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Dodge Avenger key. Based on 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Dodge Avenger.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Dodge Avenger, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Dodge Avenger 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. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Dodge Avenger 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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