How to disable the immobiliser Fiat Panda ?

Your Fiat Panda doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is quite 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 Fiat Panda ? You are on the good article, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and fix your problems related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Fiat Panda, then the different methods to disable it.

How your immobiliser system functions on Fiat Panda

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Fiat Panda. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Fiat Panda. 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 Fiat Panda will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks 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 allow you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.

First technique, your key no longer permits your Fiat Panda to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Fiat Panda, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not execute a less important procedure to bring back the normal start of your car. Actually, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Fiat Panda), 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 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 validate the digit and resume, repeat the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Fiat Panda without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If even though a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Fiat Panda still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Fiat Panda. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Fiat Panda 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 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 Fiat Panda.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Fiat Panda, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Fiat Panda 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. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Fiat Panda has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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