Your Volkswagen Fox doesn’t want to start? Have you tested everything? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the problem comes from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite possible, actually that it is in question if your automotive doesn’t want to start anymore or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Fox ? You are on the good article, we have written this post to support you see more clearly and resolve your trouble related to this component. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Volkswagen Fox, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Volkswagen Fox
Before describing the different solutions available to you, here is a short introduction to demonstrate the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Fox. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Fox. 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 Fox will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one required by your immobilization box. It is only at this moment, that it will enable you to turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Fox
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your Volkswagen Fox to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Fox, but first of all you should try this approach to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not accomplish a less important procedure to restore the normal start of your automobile. In fact, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Volkswagen Fox), 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 validate the digit and resume, duplicate the procedure until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Volkswagen Fox 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 Fox 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 system from your Volkswagen Fox. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this problem, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Volkswagen Fox 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 Volkswagen Fox.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Fox, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Volkswagen Fox would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. In fact, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to turn your car on. Moreover to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Fox 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 help people with bad intentions.
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