Your Renault Kangoo doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, indeed that it is in question if your vehicule no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Renault Kangoo ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and solve your concerns related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Renault Kangoo, then the different methods to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Renault Kangoo

Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to describe the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Renault Kangoo. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Renault Kangoo. 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 Renault Kangoo will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls 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 allow 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 Renault Kangoo

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First methodology, your key no longer enables your Renault Kangoo to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Renault Kangoo, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not do a less significant process 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 Renault Kangoo), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the process until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Renault Kangoo to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If even though a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Renault Kangoo still doesn’t want to start, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Renault Kangoo. Indeed, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Renault Kangoo key. Based 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 dealer if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Renault Kangoo.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Renault Kangoo, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Renault Kangoo 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. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Renault Kangoo has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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