How to disable the immobiliser Opel Mokka X ?

Your Opel Mokka X doesn’t want to start? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably 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 Mokka X ? You are in the right place, we have created this content to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Opel Mokka X, then the different ways to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Opel Mokka X

Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to explain the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Opel Mokka X. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Opel Mokka X. Indeed, 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 Mokka X will go each time you insert 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 moment, that it will permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.

First procedure, your key no longer allows your Opel Mokka X to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Opel Mokka X, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not accomplish a less significant procedure to restore 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 Mokka X), 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, repeat the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Opel Mokka X without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If in spite of a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Opel Mokka X still doesn’t want to start, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Opel Mokka X. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Opel Mokka X 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 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 Mokka X.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Opel Mokka X, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Opel Mokka X would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Opel Mokka X has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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