Your Land Rover Freelander doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, actually that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Land Rover Freelander ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Land Rover Freelander, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Land Rover Freelander
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Land Rover Freelander. This electronic component was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Land Rover Freelander. In fact, 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 Land Rover Freelander will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Land Rover Freelander
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer enables your Land Rover Freelander to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Land Rover Freelander, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not execute a less significant procedure to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. In fact, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Land Rover Freelander), 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, replicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Land Rover Freelander without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Land Rover Freelander still doesn’t want to start, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Land Rover Freelander. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can restore your Land Rover Freelander 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Land Rover Freelander.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Land Rover Freelander, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Land Rover Freelander would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Land Rover Freelander has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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