Your Toyota Avensis doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite plausible, actually that it is in question if your vehicule doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Toyota Avensis ? You are in the right place, we have made this post to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble connected to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Toyota Avensis, then the different techniques to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system works on Toyota Avensis

Before detailing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Toyota Avensis. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Toyota Avensis. 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 Toyota Avensis will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, 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 Toyota Avensis

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First procedure, your key no longer enables your Toyota Avensis to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Toyota Avensis, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not do a less significant procedure 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 Toyota Avensis), 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, repeat the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Toyota Avensis without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If despite a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Avensis still doesn’t want to start, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Toyota Avensis. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can restore your Toyota Avensis key. Depending on 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 Toyota Avensis.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Avensis, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Toyota Avensis 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Toyota Avensis has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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