Your Renault Latitude doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably possible, actually that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Renault Latitude ? You are on the good website, we have made this post to help you see more clearly and fix your problems connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Renault Latitude, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Renault Latitude
Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the purpose and operation of the immobilizer in your Renault Latitude. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Renault Latitude. Actually, 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 Renault Latitude will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will let you 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 Renault Latitude
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First process, your key no longer permits your Renault Latitude to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Renault Latitude, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not accomplish a less significant process to bring back the normal start of your car. Actually, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Renault Latitude), 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 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 process until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Renault Latitude without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Renault Latitude still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Renault Latitude. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Renault Latitude key. Depending on who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a copy 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 Latitude.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Renault Latitude, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Renault Latitude would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Renault Latitude 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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