Your Mercedes Benz Sprinter doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, 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 Sprinter ? You are on the good article, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and solve your problems related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Mercedes Benz Sprinter, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Mercedes Benz Sprinter
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Mercedes Benz Sprinter. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter. Indeed, 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 Benz Sprinter will go each time you place 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 instant, that it will let you start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Mercedes Benz Sprinter
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Mercedes Benz Sprinter to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter, 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 important procedure to restore the normal start of your vehicle. Indeed, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Mercedes Benz Sprinter), 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, repeat the procedure until you have entered the entire code. This should enable you to start your Mercedes Benz Sprinter without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter. 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 fix your Mercedes Benz Sprinter key. Based on who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a copy 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Mercedes Benz Sprinter, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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 help people with bad intentions.
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