How to disable the immobiliser Nissan Qashqai ?

Your Nissan Qashqai doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, indeed that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Nissan Qashqai ? You are on the good article, we have written this post to help you see more clearly and fix your problems relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Nissan Qashqai, then the different methods to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Nissan Qashqai

Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the goal and functions of the immobilizer in your Nissan Qashqai. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Nissan Qashqai. In fact, 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 Qashqai will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will allow you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

First technique, your key no longer enables your Nissan Qashqai to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Nissan Qashqai, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not perform a less important process to bring back the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Nissan Qashqai), 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 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 process until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Nissan Qashqai without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If even though a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Nissan Qashqai 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 Nissan Qashqai. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Nissan Qashqai key. Depending 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Nissan Qashqai.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Nissan Qashqai, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Nissan Qashqai would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, 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 realizes that the immobiliser on your Nissan Qashqai 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 benefit people with bad intentions.

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