Your Hyundai Kona doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, indeed that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Hyundai Kona ? You are on the good website, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and solve your problems related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Hyundai Kona, then the different methods to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Hyundai Kona

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Hyundai Kona. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Hyundai Kona. Actually, 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 Hyundai Kona will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed 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 system will work.

The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Hyundai Kona

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First technique, your key no longer allows your Hyundai Kona to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Hyundai Kona, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not do a less important procedure to restore 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 Hyundai Kona), 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 confirm the digit and resume, repeat the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Hyundai Kona without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If in spite of a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Hyundai Kona still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Hyundai Kona. Actually, your transponder must have been damaged 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 dealership who can repair your Hyundai Kona key. Based 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 Hyundai Kona.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Hyundai Kona, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Hyundai Kona would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 Hyundai Kona has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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