Your Renault Twingo doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, 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 Twingo ? 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 functions on your Renault Twingo, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Renault Twingo
Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Renault Twingo. This electronic component came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Renault Twingo. 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 Twingo will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected 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 Twingo
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer allows your Renault Twingo to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Renault Twingo, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not do a less significant operation to bring back the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Renault Twingo), 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 vehicle 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 entire code. This should let you start your Renault Twingo without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Renault Twingo still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Renault Twingo. Actually, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To correct this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Renault Twingo 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 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 Twingo.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Renault Twingo, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Renault Twingo would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Renault Twingo has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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