Your Kia Xceed doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, actually 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 Xceed ? You are on the good website, we have created this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems relating to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Kia Xceed, then the different methods to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Kia Xceed

Before detailing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the purpose and operation of the immobilizer in your Kia Xceed. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Kia Xceed. 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 Xceed will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will allow you to turn on your car. 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 Xceed

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First technique, your key no longer enables your Kia Xceed to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Kia Xceed, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to restore 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 Xceed), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Kia Xceed without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If despite a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Kia Xceed still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Kia Xceed. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Kia Xceed key. Depending on who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a copy 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 Xceed.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Kia Xceed, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Kia Xceed 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 realizes that the immobiliser on your Kia Xceed has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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