Your Kia Sportage doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates 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 Sportage ? You are in the right place, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble linked to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Kia Sportage, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Kia Sportage
Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to show you the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Kia Sportage. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Kia Sportage. 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 Sportage will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Kia Sportage
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Kia Sportage to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Kia Sportage, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not execute a less significant procedure to bring back 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 Sportage), 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 validate the digit and resume, replicate the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Kia Sportage without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Sportage 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 Sportage. Indeed, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Kia Sportage 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 Sportage.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Sportage, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Kia Sportage would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Kia Sportage has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages 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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