Your Subaru Forester doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, in fact that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Subaru Forester ? You are on the good article, we have written 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 Subaru Forester, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Subaru Forester
Before detailing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Subaru Forester. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Subaru Forester. Indeed, 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 Subaru Forester will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will let you turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Subaru Forester
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer enables your Subaru Forester to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Subaru Forester, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic verify that you can not do a less significant process to bring back the normal start of your vehicle. Indeed, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Subaru Forester), 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, duplicate the process until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Subaru Forester to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Subaru Forester still doesn’t work, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Subaru Forester. Indeed, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Subaru Forester 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 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 Subaru Forester.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Subaru Forester, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Subaru Forester would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Subaru Forester 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 help people with bad intentions.
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