Your GMC Savana doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite plausible, 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 GMC Savana ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and fix your concerns related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your GMC Savana, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on GMC Savana
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the role and functions of the immobilizer in your GMC Savana. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your GMC Savana. 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 GMC Savana will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will enable 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 GMC Savana
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your GMC Savana to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your GMC Savana, 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 process 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 GMC Savana), 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 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the process until you have entered the full code. This should allow your GMC Savana to start 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 GMC Savana still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your GMC Savana. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your GMC Savana key. Depending 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your GMC Savana.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your GMC Savana, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your GMC Savana 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. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your GMC Savana has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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