Your Dodge Durango doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, actually 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 Dodge Durango ? You are on the good article, we have written this post to help you see more clearly and solve your problems related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Dodge Durango, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Dodge Durango
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Dodge Durango. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Dodge Durango. 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 Dodge Durango 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 moment, that it will let you start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Dodge Durango
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer permits your Dodge Durango to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Dodge Durango, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not accomplish a less significant procedure 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 Dodge Durango), 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 procedure until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Dodge Durango without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Dodge Durango 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 Dodge Durango. Actually, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Dodge Durango 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Dodge Durango.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Dodge Durango, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Dodge Durango would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Dodge Durango has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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