Your Volkswagen Golf doesn’t start anymore? Have you tried all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually plausible, actually 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 Golf ? You are on the good website, we have written this content to help you see more clearly and solve your problems related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Volkswagen Golf, then the different methods to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Volkswagen Golf
Before describing the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to explain the intent and operation of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Golf. This electronic part appeared 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Golf. Indeed, 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 Volkswagen Golf will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one asked by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will let you turn on your car. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this device will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Golf
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer permits your Volkswagen Golf to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Golf, but first of all you should try this process to start it and take it to a mechanic check that you can not accomplish a less significant operation to bring back the normal start of your car. Indeed, with your car you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Volkswagen Golf), 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 validate the digit and resume, repeat the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should enable you to start your Volkswagen Golf without having to remove the immobiliser.
Repair your key at a key specialist or your dealer
If even though a battery change, different tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Volkswagen Golf still doesn’t work, it’s probably your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Volkswagen Golf. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can fix your Volkswagen Golf 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 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.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Golf, this is not recommended at all for several reasons. First your Volkswagen Golf 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 acknowledges that the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Golf has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some sites still give the technique, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could benefit people with bad intentions.
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