Your Hyundai Santa Fe doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, in fact 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 Santa Fe ? You are on the good article, we have made this post to help you see more clearly and fix your trouble relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Hyundai Santa Fe, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Hyundai Santa Fe
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to show you the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Hyundai Santa Fe. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Hyundai Santa Fe. 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 Hyundai Santa Fe 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 instant, that it will let you 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 Hyundai Santa Fe
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer allows your Hyundai Santa Fe to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Hyundai Santa Fe, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not do a less important operation to reestablish 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 Hyundai Santa Fe), 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 validate the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Hyundai Santa Fe without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Hyundai Santa Fe still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Hyundai Santa Fe. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Hyundai Santa Fe 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 Hyundai Santa Fe.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Hyundai Santa Fe, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Hyundai Santa Fe would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Hyundai Santa Fe has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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