How to disable the immobiliser Subaru Impreza ?

Your Subaru Impreza doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is quite plausible, 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 Subaru Impreza ? You are on the good website, we have made this article to support you see more clearly and fix your concerns linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Subaru Impreza, then the different methods to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Subaru Impreza

Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Subaru Impreza. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Subaru Impreza. 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 Subaru Impreza will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will enable you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

First process, your key no longer allows your Subaru Impreza to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Subaru Impreza, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not perform a less significant process to bring back the normal start of your vehicle. In fact, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Subaru Impreza), 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 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 process until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Subaru Impreza to start without having to remove the immobiliser.

Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If in spite of a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Subaru Impreza still doesn’t want to start, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Subaru Impreza. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Subaru Impreza 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 Subaru Impreza.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Subaru Impreza, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Subaru Impreza would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Subaru Impreza has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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