Your Toyota Sequoia doesn’t want to start? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, in fact that it is in question if your car no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Toyota Sequoia ? You are on the good website, we have created this article to support you see more clearly and fix your trouble linked to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Toyota Sequoia, then the different ways to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Toyota Sequoia

Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the role and functions of the immobilizer in your Toyota Sequoia. This electronic element was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Toyota Sequoia. In fact, 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 Sequoia will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Toyota Sequoia

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First methodology, your key no longer allows your Toyota Sequoia to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Toyota Sequoia, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not perform a less significant operation to bring back the normal start of your car. In fact, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Toyota Sequoia), 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 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Toyota Sequoia without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership

If in spite of a battery change, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Sequoia still doesn’t work, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Toyota Sequoia. In fact, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Toyota Sequoia 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 Sequoia.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Sequoia, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Toyota Sequoia would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Toyota Sequoia has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

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