Your Opel Corsa doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Opel Corsa ? You are on the good article, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Opel Corsa, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Opel Corsa
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Opel Corsa. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Opel Corsa. 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 Opel Corsa will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Opel Corsa
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Opel Corsa to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Opel Corsa, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not do a less significant process to reestablish 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 Opel Corsa), 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 validate the digit and resume, replicate the process until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Opel Corsa without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Opel Corsa 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 Opel Corsa. Actually, your transponder must have been injured 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 dealer who can repair your Opel Corsa 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Opel Corsa.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Opel Corsa, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Opel Corsa would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Opel Corsa has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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