Your Kia Optima doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably plausible, indeed that it is in question if your automotive doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Kia Optima ? You are in the right place, we have made this content to help you see more clearly and fix your trouble linked to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Kia Optima, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Kia Optima
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Kia Optima. This electronic component was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Kia Optima. 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 Kia Optima will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will let you 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 Kia Optima
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Kia Optima to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Kia Optima, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not execute a less important process to restore 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 Kia Optima), 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 process until you have entered the entire code. This should enable you to start your Kia Optima without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Optima still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Kia Optima. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Kia Optima 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 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 Kia Optima.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Optima, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Kia Optima 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 Kia Optima has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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