Your Volkswagen Rabbit doesn’t start anymore? Have you analyzed all sorts of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is certainly possible, indeed 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 Rabbit ? You are in the right place, we have created this article to help you see more clearly and solve your trouble related to this part. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Volkswagen Rabbit, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Volkswagen Rabbit
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to show you the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Rabbit. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and aspires to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Rabbit. In fact, 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 Rabbit will go each time you put the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is indeed the one asked 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 system will work.
The different possibilities to bypass the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Rabbit
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your Volkswagen Rabbit to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Rabbit, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a garage check that you can not do a less significant operation to reestablish 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 Rabbit), 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 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 operation until you have entered the entire code. This should enable you to start your Volkswagen Rabbit without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If despite a battery swap, several tries to enter the immobiliser code on your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 device from your Volkswagen Rabbit. In fact, your transponder must have been injured or must have fallen off your key. To resolve this issue, only option, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can repair your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 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 Rabbit.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be thinking to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Rabbit, this is not recommended at all for different reasons. First your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 Rabbit 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 help people with bad intentions.
In the event that you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Rabbit, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Rabbit category.
