Your Seat Arona doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your automotive doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Seat Arona ? You are on the good article, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your problems connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Seat Arona, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Seat Arona
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Seat Arona. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Seat Arona. In fact, 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 Seat Arona will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls 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 enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Seat Arona
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Seat Arona to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Seat Arona, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not execute a less important process to restore the normal start of your car. In fact, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Seat Arona), 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, replicate the process until you have entered the entire code. This should let you start your Seat Arona without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Seat Arona still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Seat Arona. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Seat Arona key. Based 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 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 Seat Arona.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Seat Arona, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Seat Arona would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Seat Arona 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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