Your Nissan Maxima doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, actually that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Nissan Maxima ? You are on the good website, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your trouble relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Nissan Maxima, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Nissan Maxima

Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to describe the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Nissan Maxima. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Nissan Maxima. Actually, 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 Nissan Maxima will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required 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 possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Nissan Maxima

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First technique, your key no longer allows your Nissan Maxima to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Nissan Maxima, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to restore the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Nissan Maxima), 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 procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Nissan Maxima without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If despite a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Nissan Maxima 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 Nissan Maxima. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Nissan Maxima 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 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 Maxima.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Nissan Maxima, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Nissan Maxima would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 Nissan Maxima has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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