Your Suzuki Jimny doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Suzuki Jimny ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems linked to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Suzuki Jimny, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Suzuki Jimny
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Suzuki Jimny. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Suzuki Jimny. Actually, 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 Suzuki Jimny will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Suzuki Jimny
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Suzuki Jimny to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Suzuki Jimny, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not accomplish a less important process to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Suzuki Jimny), 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 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, repeat the process until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Suzuki Jimny without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Suzuki Jimny still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Suzuki Jimny. Actually, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Suzuki Jimny 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 Suzuki Jimny.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Suzuki Jimny, this is not advised at all for many reasons. First your Suzuki Jimny would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Suzuki Jimny 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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