Your Jeep Liberty doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, 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 Jeep Liberty ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and solve your problems relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Jeep Liberty, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Jeep Liberty
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Jeep Liberty. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Jeep Liberty. Indeed, 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 Liberty will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks 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 alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Jeep Liberty
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer enables your Jeep Liberty to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Jeep Liberty, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not perform a less significant procedure to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Indeed, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Jeep Liberty), 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, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Jeep Liberty to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Jeep Liberty still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Jeep Liberty. Indeed, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Jeep Liberty key. Depending 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Jeep Liberty.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Jeep Liberty, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Jeep Liberty would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 Jeep Liberty 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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