Your Jeep Cherokee doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Jeep Cherokee ? You are on the good website, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Jeep Cherokee, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Jeep Cherokee

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Jeep Cherokee. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Jeep Cherokee. 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 Jeep Cherokee will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, 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 Jeep Cherokee

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First methodology, your key no longer enables your Jeep Cherokee to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Jeep Cherokee, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less important operation to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. In fact, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Jeep Cherokee), 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 vehicle 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, repeat the operation until you have entered the full code. This should let you start your Jeep Cherokee without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Jeep Cherokee 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 Jeep Cherokee. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Jeep Cherokee 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 Jeep Cherokee.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Jeep Cherokee, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Jeep Cherokee would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Jeep Cherokee 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.

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