Your Jeep Patriot doesn’t want to start? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Jeep Patriot ? You are on the good article, we have made this article to help you see more clearly and solve your problems relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Jeep Patriot, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Jeep Patriot
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to show you the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Jeep Patriot. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Jeep Patriot. 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 Jeep Patriot will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one expected 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 device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Jeep Patriot
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Jeep Patriot to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Jeep Patriot, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to restore the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Jeep Patriot), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Jeep Patriot without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Jeep Patriot 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 system from your Jeep Patriot. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Jeep Patriot key. Determined by 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 Patriot.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Jeep Patriot, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Jeep Patriot would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 realizes that the immobiliser on your Jeep Patriot 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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