Your Ford Escape doesn’t want to start? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Ford Escape ? You are in the right place, we have created this content to support you see more clearly and fix your trouble relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Ford Escape, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Ford Escape
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Ford Escape. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Ford Escape. 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 Ford Escape will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked 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 solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Ford Escape
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer allows your Ford Escape to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Ford Escape, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not accomplish a less important operation to restore 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 Ford Escape), 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 validate the digit and resume, replicate the operation until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Ford Escape without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Ford Escape 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 Ford Escape. 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 Ford Escape key. Depending 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 Ford Escape.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Ford Escape, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Ford Escape would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Ford Escape has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
If you have any further questions about the Ford Escape, do not hesitate to consult our Ford Escape category.
