Your Volkswagen Amarok doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is reasonably 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 Volkswagen Amarok ? You are on the good website, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and resolve your problems relating to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Volkswagen Amarok, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Volkswagen Amarok
Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the purpose and functions of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Amarok. This electronic component was invented 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Amarok. In fact, 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 Volkswagen Amarok will go each time you place 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 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 Volkswagen Amarok
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First technique, your key no longer permits your Volkswagen Amarok to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Amarok, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not perform a less important procedure 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 Volkswagen Amarok), 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 confirm the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should allow your Volkswagen Amarok to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If in spite of a battery swap, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Volkswagen Amarok 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 system from your Volkswagen Amarok. In fact, your transponder must have been damaged or must have fallen off your key. To fix this trouble, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your dealer who can repair your Volkswagen Amarok key. Determined by 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 Volkswagen Amarok.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be tempted to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Amarok, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Volkswagen Amarok would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. Additionally to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Amarok has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the methodology, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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