How to disable the immobiliser Renault Maxity ?

Your Renault Maxity doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, in fact 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 Renault Maxity ? You are on the good article, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your concerns related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Renault Maxity, then the different ways to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Renault Maxity

Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to show you the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Renault Maxity. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Renault Maxity. 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 Renault Maxity will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one expected 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 system will work.

First methodology, your key no longer allows your Renault Maxity to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Renault Maxity, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not do a less significant operation 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 Renault Maxity), 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 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Renault Maxity without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If despite a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Renault Maxity 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 Maxity. In fact, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Renault Maxity key. Determined by 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 Maxity.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Renault Maxity, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Renault Maxity would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Renault Maxity 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 benefit people with bad intentions.

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