Your Mercedes Actros doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed 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 Mercedes Actros ? You are on the good article, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and solve your concerns linked to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Mercedes Actros, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Mercedes Actros
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Mercedes Actros. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Mercedes Actros. Actually, 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 Mercedes Actros will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked 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 system will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Mercedes Actros
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Mercedes Actros to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Mercedes Actros, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less significant operation to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Mercedes Actros), 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 operation until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Mercedes Actros without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Mercedes Actros still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Mercedes Actros. Actually, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Mercedes Actros 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 Mercedes Actros.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Mercedes Actros, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Mercedes Actros would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Mercedes Actros has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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