Your Mercedes Benz GLA Class doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem originates 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 Benz GLA Class ? You are on the good article, we have created this post to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Mercedes Benz GLA Class, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Mercedes Benz GLA Class

Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Mercedes Benz GLA Class. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class. 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 Mercedes Benz GLA Class will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will allow you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Mercedes Benz GLA Class

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First procedure, your key no longer permits your Mercedes Benz GLA Class to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not do a less significant operation to reestablish the normal start of your car. In fact, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Mercedes Benz GLA Class), but if you don’t have it you should at least have the “code card”, it includes 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should enable you to start your Mercedes Benz GLA Class without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If despite a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Mercedes Benz GLA Class still doesn’t want to start, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Mercedes Benz GLA Class. In fact, your transponder must have been affected 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 restore your Mercedes Benz GLA Class 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 Mercedes Benz GLA Class.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Mercedes Benz GLA Class, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Mercedes Benz GLA Class would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Mercedes Benz GLA Class has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.

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