Your Porsche 911 doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite plausible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Porsche 911 ? You are on the good website, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your concerns connected to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Porsche 911, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Porsche 911

Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short intro to describe the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Porsche 911. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Porsche 911. 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 Porsche 911 will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will enable you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.

The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Porsche 911

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First technique, your key no longer enables your Porsche 911 to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Porsche 911, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not do a less significant procedure to bring back the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Porsche 911), 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 car 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, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Porsche 911 to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer

If despite a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Porsche 911 still doesn’t want to start, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Porsche 911. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected 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 restore your Porsche 911 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 Porsche 911.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Porsche 911, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Porsche 911 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Porsche 911 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.

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