Your Ford Transit Connect doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Ford Transit Connect ? You are on the good website, we have created this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Ford Transit Connect, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Ford Transit Connect

Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Ford Transit Connect. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Ford Transit Connect. In fact, 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 Transit Connect will go each time you place 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 let you turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.

The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Ford Transit Connect

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First technique, your key no longer enables your Ford Transit Connect to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Ford Transit Connect, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not perform a less important procedure 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 Ford Transit Connect), 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 procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Ford Transit Connect to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If in spite of a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Ford Transit Connect still doesn’t want to start, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Ford Transit Connect. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can restore your Ford Transit Connect key. Based 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 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 Transit Connect.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Ford Transit Connect, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Ford Transit Connect 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 Transit Connect has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

To find more tips on the Ford Transit Connect, take a look at the Ford Transit Connect category.