Your Dodge Journey doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, in fact that it is in question if your automotive doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Dodge Journey ? You are in the right place, we have created this post to support you see more clearly and fix your concerns relating to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Dodge Journey, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Dodge Journey
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to show you the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Dodge Journey. This electronic component was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Dodge Journey. 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 Dodge Journey will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one required 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 system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Dodge Journey
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Dodge Journey to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Dodge Journey, 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 process to restore the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Dodge Journey), 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 car 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 confirm the digit and resume, replicate the process until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Dodge Journey without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Dodge Journey still doesn’t work, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Dodge Journey. Indeed, 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 dealer who can repair your Dodge Journey key. Determined by 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 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 Journey.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Dodge Journey, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Dodge Journey would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Dodge Journey has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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