Your Mini Cooper doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, actually 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 Mini Cooper ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your concerns related to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Mini Cooper, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Mini Cooper
Before detailing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Mini Cooper. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Mini Cooper. 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 Mini Cooper 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 instant, that it will let you start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Mini Cooper
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer allows your Mini Cooper to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Mini Cooper, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not accomplish a less significant process 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 Mini Cooper), 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 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, replicate the process until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Mini Cooper without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Mini Cooper still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Mini Cooper. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Mini Cooper key. Depending 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Mini Cooper.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Mini Cooper, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Mini Cooper would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 Mini Cooper 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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