Your Honda Insight doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem originates from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, indeed 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 Insight ? You are on the good article, we have written this post to help you see more clearly and resolve your trouble connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Honda Insight, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Honda Insight
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to show you the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Honda Insight. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Honda Insight. Actually, 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 Insight will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will allow you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Honda Insight
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer permits your Honda Insight to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Honda Insight, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not do a less important procedure to reestablish the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Honda Insight), 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 Honda Insight to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If in spite of a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Honda Insight still doesn’t work, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Honda Insight. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Honda Insight 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 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 Honda Insight.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Honda Insight, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Honda Insight would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Honda Insight 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.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Honda Insight, do not hesitate to consult our Honda Insight category.
