Your Mercedes Vito doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, actually that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Mercedes Vito ? You are in the right place, we have created this post to help you see more clearly and resolve your concerns linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Mercedes Vito, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Mercedes Vito
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Mercedes Vito. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Mercedes Vito. 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 Vito will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually 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 Vito
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer allows your Mercedes Vito to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Mercedes Vito, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not perform a less significant process to bring back 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 Vito), 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, replicate the process until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Mercedes Vito to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Mercedes Vito 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 system from your Mercedes Vito. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Mercedes Vito key. Based 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 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 Vito.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Mercedes Vito, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Mercedes Vito would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Mercedes Vito 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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