Your Lincoln Continental doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably plausible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Lincoln Continental ? You are in the right place, we have created this content to help you see more clearly and fix your concerns relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Lincoln Continental, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Lincoln Continental
Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Lincoln Continental. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Lincoln Continental. 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 Lincoln Continental will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will let you 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 Lincoln Continental
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Lincoln Continental to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Lincoln Continental, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less important operation 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 Lincoln Continental), 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, repeat the operation until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Lincoln Continental to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Lincoln Continental still doesn’t work, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Lincoln Continental. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Lincoln Continental 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 Lincoln Continental.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Lincoln Continental, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Lincoln Continental 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. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Lincoln Continental has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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