Your Nissan Altima doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Nissan Altima ? You are on the good website, we have written this post to help you see more clearly and solve your concerns relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Nissan Altima, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Nissan Altima
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Nissan Altima. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Nissan Altima. 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 Nissan Altima will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one expected 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 device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Nissan Altima
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Nissan Altima to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Nissan Altima, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not do a less important operation to reestablish the normal start of your automobile. Indeed, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Nissan Altima), 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 automobile 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 let you start your Nissan Altima without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Nissan Altima 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 Nissan Altima. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected 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 dealership who can restore your Nissan Altima 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 Nissan Altima.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Nissan Altima, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Nissan Altima 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. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Nissan Altima 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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