Your Kia Soul doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed 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 Kia Soul ? You are in the right place, we have created this post to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble related to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Kia Soul, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Kia Soul
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Kia Soul. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Kia Soul. Actually, 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 Soul will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, 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 Soul
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Kia Soul to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Kia Soul, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not perform a less significant process to reestablish the normal start of your car. Actually, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Kia Soul), but if you don’t have it you should at least have the “code card”, it contains 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the process until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Kia Soul without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Soul 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 Soul. Actually, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can restore your Kia Soul 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 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 Soul.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Soul, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Kia Soul 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Kia Soul has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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