Your Peugeot 308 doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite plausible, indeed that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Peugeot 308 ? You are on the good article, we have made this post to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Peugeot 308, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Peugeot 308
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Peugeot 308. This electronic element was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Peugeot 308. In fact, 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 Peugeot 308 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 enable you to 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 Peugeot 308
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Peugeot 308 to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Peugeot 308, 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 important process to bring back the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Peugeot 308), 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 process until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Peugeot 308 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 tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Peugeot 308 still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Peugeot 308. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Peugeot 308 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Peugeot 308.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Peugeot 308, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Peugeot 308 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Peugeot 308 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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