Your Maserati Ghibli doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Maserati Ghibli ? You are on the good article, we have made this content to help you see more clearly and resolve your concerns linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Maserati Ghibli, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Maserati Ghibli

Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to describe the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Maserati Ghibli. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Maserati Ghibli. 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 Maserati Ghibli will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact 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 solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Maserati Ghibli

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First process, your key no longer permits your Maserati Ghibli to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Maserati Ghibli, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not accomplish a less important 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 Maserati Ghibli), 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 enable you to start your Maserati Ghibli without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Maserati Ghibli still doesn’t want to start, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Maserati Ghibli. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened 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 car dealership who can fix your Maserati Ghibli 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Maserati Ghibli.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Maserati Ghibli, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Maserati Ghibli 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Maserati Ghibli has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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