Your Kia Venga doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Kia Venga ? You are on the good website, we have made this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your concerns relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Kia Venga, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Kia Venga
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Kia Venga. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Kia Venga. 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 Venga will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will enable you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Kia Venga
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Kia Venga to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Kia Venga, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not perform a less significant process to bring back 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 Venga), 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 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, duplicate the process until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Kia Venga to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Venga still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Kia Venga. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Kia Venga 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 car 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 Venga.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Venga, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Kia Venga 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. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Kia Venga has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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