Your Toyota Corolla doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble emanates from your immobiliser ? It is quite possible, actually that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Toyota Corolla ? You are on the good website, we have made this article to support you see more clearly and solve your concerns linked to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Toyota Corolla, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Toyota Corolla
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to explain the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Toyota Corolla. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Toyota Corolla. 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 Toyota Corolla will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is actually the one asked 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 device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Toyota Corolla
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Toyota Corolla to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Toyota Corolla, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage verify that you can not execute a less important operation to bring back the normal start of your automobile. Indeed, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Toyota Corolla), 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 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Toyota Corolla to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If in spite of a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Corolla still doesn’t want to start, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Toyota Corolla. Indeed, your transponder must have been affected 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 car dealership who can fix your Toyota Corolla 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 Toyota Corolla.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Corolla, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Toyota Corolla would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Toyota Corolla has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Toyota Corolla, do not hesitate to consult our Toyota Corolla category.
