Your Opel Meriva doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, indeed 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 Meriva ? You are in the right place, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble relating to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Opel Meriva, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Opel Meriva
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Opel Meriva. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Opel Meriva. 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 Meriva 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 start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Opel Meriva
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer allows your Opel Meriva to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Opel Meriva, 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 procedure 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 Meriva), 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 procedure until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Opel Meriva to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Opel Meriva 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 Meriva. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Opel Meriva key. Determined by 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 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 Meriva.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Opel Meriva, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Opel Meriva would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Opel Meriva 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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