How to disable the immobiliser Kia Sedona ?

Your Kia Sedona doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Kia Sedona ? You are on the good article, we have created this post to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble connected to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Kia Sedona, then the different methods to disable it.

How your immobiliser system functions on Kia Sedona

Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Kia Sedona. This electronic element was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Kia Sedona. 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 Kia Sedona will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls 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 let you turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

First technique, your key no longer allows your Kia Sedona to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Kia Sedona, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not execute a less significant procedure 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 Kia Sedona), 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, replicate the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should let you start your Kia Sedona without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If despite a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Sedona still doesn’t want to start, 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 Sedona. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Kia Sedona 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 Kia Sedona.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Sedona, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Kia Sedona 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. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Kia Sedona has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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