Your Toyota Tundra doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly 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 Tundra ? You are on the good article, we have written this content to support you see more clearly and fix your concerns linked to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Toyota Tundra, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Toyota Tundra
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the intent and functions of the immobilizer in your Toyota Tundra. This electronic component appeared 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Toyota Tundra. 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 Tundra will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will let you 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 Tundra
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First procedure, your key no longer permits your Toyota Tundra to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Toyota Tundra, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not perform a less significant procedure to reestablish the normal start of your vehicle. Indeed, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Toyota Tundra), 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 vehicle 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 procedure until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Toyota Tundra to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, different attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Tundra 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 Tundra. Indeed, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Toyota Tundra 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 car 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 Tundra.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Tundra, this is not advised at all for different reasons. First your Toyota Tundra 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. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Toyota Tundra 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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