Your Vauxkhall Astra doesn’t want to start? Have you tried all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, indeed that it is in question if your car doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Vauxkhall Astra ? You are on the good article, we have written this post to support you see more clearly and solve your trouble linked to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Vauxkhall Astra, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Vauxkhall Astra
Before explaining the different solutions available to you, here is a short intro to demonstrate the aim and functions of the immobilizer in your Vauxkhall Astra. This electronic element appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Vauxkhall Astra. 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 Vauxkhall Astra will go each time you place 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 instant, that it will allow 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 Vauxkhall Astra
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer allows your Vauxkhall Astra to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Vauxkhall Astra, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not execute a less important process to bring back 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 Vauxkhall Astra), 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 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 process until you have entered the full code. This should allow your Vauxkhall Astra to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Vauxkhall Astra still doesn’t work, it’s almost certainly your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Vauxkhall Astra. Actually, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Vauxkhall Astra key. Depending on who you go to the repair should cost you about 100 euros if you still have a duplicate 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 Vauxkhall Astra.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Vauxkhall Astra, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Vauxkhall Astra would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Furthermore to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it knows that the immobiliser on your Vauxkhall Astra has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites 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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