How to disable the immobiliser Toyota Rav 4 ?

Your Toyota Rav 4 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 actually plausible, indeed that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Toyota Rav 4 ? You are in the right place, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Toyota Rav 4, then the different methods to disable it.

How your immobiliser system works on Toyota Rav 4

Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Toyota Rav 4. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Toyota Rav 4. Indeed, 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 Toyota Rav 4 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 turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.

First methodology, your key no longer permits your Toyota Rav 4 to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Toyota Rav 4, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not do a less significant procedure to restore the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Toyota Rav 4), 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 car 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 procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Toyota Rav 4 without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If despite a battery change, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Rav 4 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 device from your Toyota Rav 4. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can repair your Toyota Rav 4 key. Determined by 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 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 Rav 4.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Rav 4, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Toyota Rav 4 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it realizes that the immobiliser on your Toyota Rav 4 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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