How to disable the immobiliser Opel Insignia ?

Your Opel Insignia doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Opel Insignia ? You are on the good article, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Opel Insignia, then the different techniques to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Opel Insignia

Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Opel Insignia. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Opel Insignia. 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 Opel Insignia will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.

First process, your key no longer allows your Opel Insignia to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Opel Insignia, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not accomplish a less significant operation to bring back 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 Opel Insignia), 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Opel Insignia to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If despite a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Opel Insignia 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 Insignia. Indeed, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Opel Insignia 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 Insignia.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Opel Insignia, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Opel Insignia would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 Opel Insignia has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.

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