How to disable the immobiliser Kia Picanto ?

Your Kia Picanto doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, actually that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Kia Picanto ? You are in the right place, we have written this content to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Kia Picanto, then the different ways to disable it.

How your immobiliser system functions on Kia Picanto

Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to explain the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Kia Picanto. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Kia Picanto. 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 Kia Picanto will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.

First methodology, your key no longer allows your Kia Picanto to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Kia Picanto, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not accomplish a less significant procedure to reestablish the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Kia Picanto), 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 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, repeat the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Kia Picanto to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If despite a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Picanto still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Kia Picanto. Indeed, 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 fix your Kia Picanto key. Depending 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Kia Picanto.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Picanto, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Kia Picanto 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Kia Picanto has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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