Your Opel Adam doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Opel Adam ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Opel Adam, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Opel Adam

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Opel Adam. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Opel Adam. 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 Opel Adam will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will let you start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Opel Adam

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First procedure, your key no longer enables your Opel Adam to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Opel Adam, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not accomplish a less significant procedure to bring back the normal start of your vehicle. In fact, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Opel Adam), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Opel Adam to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If in spite of a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Opel Adam still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Opel Adam. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can restore your Opel Adam key. Determined by 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 Opel Adam.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Opel Adam, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Opel Adam would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Opel Adam has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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