How to disable the immobiliser Kia Sorento ?

Your Kia Sorento doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Kia Sorento ? You are on the good article, we have made this post to support you see more clearly and fix your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Kia Sorento, then the different techniques to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Kia Sorento

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Kia Sorento. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Kia Sorento. Indeed, 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 Sorento will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required 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 unit will work.

First technique, your key no longer permits your Kia Sorento to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Kia Sorento, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not perform a less important operation to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. Indeed, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Kia Sorento), 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 validate the digit and resume, repeat the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should enable you to start your Kia Sorento without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If even though a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Sorento 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 Sorento. Indeed, your transponder must have been damaged 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 Kia Sorento key. Based 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 Kia Sorento.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Sorento, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Kia Sorento would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Kia Sorento 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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