Your Ford Ka doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, actually 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 Ford Ka ? You are on the good article, we have created this post to support you see more clearly and fix your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Ford Ka, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Ford Ka
Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Ford Ka. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Ford Ka. 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 Ford Ka will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required 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.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Ford Ka
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Ford Ka to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Ford Ka, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not accomplish a less significant procedure to reestablish 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 Ford Ka), 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, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Ford Ka to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Ford Ka still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Ford Ka. In fact, your transponder must have been affected 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 dealership who can restore your Ford Ka key. Determined by 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 Ka.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Ford Ka, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Ford Ka would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Ford Ka has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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