Your Toyota RAV4 doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, indeed that it is in question if your automotive doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Toyota RAV4 ? You are on the good website, we have made this article to support you see more clearly and fix your problems connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Toyota RAV4, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Toyota RAV4
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Toyota RAV4. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Toyota RAV4. 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 RAV4 will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it checks 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 device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Toyota RAV4
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer allows your Toyota RAV4 to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Toyota RAV4, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to reestablish 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 RAV4), 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 validate the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the full code. This should enable you to start your Toyota RAV4 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 RAV4 still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Toyota RAV4. Indeed, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Toyota RAV4 key. Depending 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 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 RAV4.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota RAV4, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Toyota RAV4 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Toyota RAV4 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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