How to disable the immobiliser Honda Element ?

Your Honda Element doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, actually 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 Honda Element ? You are on the good website, we have written this post to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems relating to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Honda Element, then the different methods to disable it.

How your immobiliser system functions on Honda Element

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Honda Element. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Honda Element. Indeed, 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 Honda Element will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls 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 enable you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.

First methodology, your key no longer enables your Honda Element to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Honda Element, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to restore the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Honda Element), 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 procedure until you have entered the entire code. This should enable you to start your Honda Element without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Honda Element 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 Honda Element. Indeed, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Honda Element key. Determined by 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 Honda Element.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Honda Element, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Honda Element would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Honda Element 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 benefit people with bad intentions.

In the event that you have any further questions about the Honda Element, do not hesitate to consult our Honda Element category.