Your Dodge Nitro doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Dodge Nitro ? You are on the good website, we have created this content to help you see more clearly and fix your problems linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Dodge Nitro, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Dodge Nitro
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Dodge Nitro. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Dodge Nitro. 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 Dodge Nitro will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will allow you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Dodge Nitro
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer enables your Dodge Nitro to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Dodge Nitro, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not do a less significant operation to restore the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Dodge Nitro), 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 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 confirm the digit and resume, repeat the operation until you have entered the full code. This should let you start your Dodge Nitro without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Dodge Nitro still doesn’t want to start, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Dodge Nitro. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Dodge Nitro key. Depending 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 Nitro.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Dodge Nitro, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Dodge Nitro would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Dodge Nitro 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.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Dodge Nitro, do not hesitate to consult our Dodge Nitro category.
