Your Land Rover LR4 doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed 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 LR4 ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and resolve your problems related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Land Rover LR4, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Land Rover LR4
Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Land Rover LR4. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Land Rover LR4. In fact, 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 Land Rover LR4 will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will permit you to 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 Land Rover LR4
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Land Rover LR4 to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Land Rover LR4, 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 process 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 LR4), 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 entire code. This should enable you to start your Land Rover LR4 without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Land Rover LR4 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 device from your Land Rover LR4. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Land Rover LR4 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 Land Rover LR4.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Land Rover LR4, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Land Rover LR4 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Land Rover LR4 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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