Your Toyota Yaris 2 doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed 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 Yaris 2 ? You are on the good website, we have written this article to help you see more clearly and resolve your trouble linked to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Toyota Yaris 2, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Toyota Yaris 2
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to describe the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Toyota Yaris 2. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Toyota Yaris 2. 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 Yaris 2 will go each time you insert 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 moment, that it will permit you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Toyota Yaris 2
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Toyota Yaris 2 to start, you want to disable the immobiliser of your Toyota Yaris 2, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not perform a less significant operation to restore 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 Yaris 2), 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 validate the digit and resume, duplicate the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Toyota Yaris 2 to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Toyota Yaris 2 still doesn’t want to start, 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 Yaris 2. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened 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 car dealer who can fix your Toyota Yaris 2 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 Yaris 2.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Toyota Yaris 2, this is not recommended at all for many reasons. First your Toyota Yaris 2 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Indeed, 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 finds out that the immobiliser on your Toyota Yaris 2 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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