Your Toyota Tacoma doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem originates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly plausible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Toyota Tacoma ? You are on the good article, we have made this content to help you see more clearly and fix your concerns connected to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Toyota Tacoma, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Toyota Tacoma
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Toyota Tacoma. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Toyota Tacoma. Actually, 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 Tacoma will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will permit you to start. 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 Tacoma
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer permits your Toyota Tacoma to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Toyota Tacoma, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not accomplish a less significant operation to restore the normal start of your automobile. Actually, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Toyota Tacoma), 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 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Toyota Tacoma to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Tacoma still doesn’t want to start, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Toyota Tacoma. Actually, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To correct this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can fix your Toyota Tacoma 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 Tacoma.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Tacoma, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Toyota Tacoma would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, 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 realizes that the immobiliser on your Toyota Tacoma has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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