Your Ford Ranger doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably plausible, actually that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Ford Ranger ? You are on the good website, we have written this post to help you see more clearly and solve your concerns relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Ford Ranger, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Ford Ranger
Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to show you the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Ford Ranger. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Ford Ranger. 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 Ranger will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one expected 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 device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Ford Ranger
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Ford Ranger to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Ford Ranger, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not accomplish a less significant operation to restore the normal start of your car. In fact, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Ford Ranger), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Ford Ranger without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Ford Ranger still doesn’t want to start, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Ford Ranger. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can fix your Ford Ranger key. Based 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 Ford Ranger.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Ford Ranger, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Ford Ranger 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 acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Ford Ranger 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 benefit people with bad intentions.
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