Your Volkswagen Touareg doesn’t start anymore? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you have the feeling that the issue emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually possible, in fact that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting for no reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Touareg ? You are on the good article, we have written this post to help you see more clearly and fix your trouble relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser works on your Volkswagen Touareg, then the different ways to disable it.
How your immobiliser system works on Volkswagen Touareg
Before describing the different alternatives available to you, here is a short intro to explain the goal and operation of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Touareg. This electronic part came out 30 years ago and intends to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Touareg. Indeed, 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 Touareg will go each time you insert the key in the ignition, it checks that the code emitted by your key is in fact the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will enable you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this unit will work.
The different solutions to bypass the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Touareg
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer enables your Volkswagen Touareg to start, you want to deactivate the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Touareg, but first of all you should try this technique to start it and take it to a mechanic examine that you can not accomplish a less important operation to reestablish the normal start of your automobile. Indeed, with your automobile you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Volkswagen Touareg), 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, duplicate the operation until you have entered the entire code. This should allow your Volkswagen Touareg to start without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealer
If even though a battery swap, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Volkswagen Touareg 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 Touareg. Indeed, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To correct this issue, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealer who can restore your Volkswagen Touareg key. Based 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 Touareg.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Touareg, this is not advised at all for several reasons. First your Volkswagen Touareg 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 knows that the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Touareg has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online still give the process, we have made the choice not to disclose it, because it could help people with bad intentions.
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