Your Volkswagen Golf 8 doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the trouble originates from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, actually 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 Volkswagen Golf 8 ? You are on the good article, we have made this post to help you see more clearly and fix your concerns related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Volkswagen Golf 8, then the different techniques to disable it.

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How your immobiliser system functions on Volkswagen Golf 8

Before explaining the different alternatives available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the role and operation of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Golf 8. This electronic part was invented 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Golf 8. 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 Golf 8 will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it checks 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 let you start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.

The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Golf 8

Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser

First procedure, your key no longer allows your Volkswagen Golf 8 to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Golf 8, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not execute a less important process to reestablish 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 Golf 8), 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 validate the digit and resume, repeat the process until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Volkswagen Golf 8 without having to remove the immobiliser.

Fix your key at a key specialist or your dealer

If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Volkswagen Golf 8 still doesn’t work, it’s likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser device from your Volkswagen Golf 8. In fact, your transponder must have been affected or must have fallen off your key. To correct this trouble, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Volkswagen Golf 8 key. Based 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 Golf 8.

Manually remove your immobilizer

Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Golf 8, this is not advised at all for some reasons. First your Volkswagen Golf 8 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Golf 8 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some internet pages still give the method, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.

If you need more tutorials on the Volkswagen Golf 8, go to our Volkswagen Golf 8 category.