Your Honda Fit doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Honda Fit ? You are in the right place, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and fix your concerns related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Honda Fit, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Honda Fit
Before detailing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Honda Fit. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Honda Fit. 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 Honda Fit will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Honda Fit
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Honda Fit to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Honda Fit, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not accomplish a less significant procedure to bring back 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 Honda Fit), 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 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, repeat the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Honda Fit to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If in spite of a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Honda Fit 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 Honda Fit. In fact, your transponder must have been affected 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 Honda Fit 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 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 Fit.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Honda Fit, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Honda Fit would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Honda Fit has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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