Your Volkswagen Transporter 4 doesn’t want to start? Have you tested all kinds of things? Battery, alternator, spare keys… And you feel like the problem emanates from your immobiliser ? It is actually quite plausible, actually that it is in question if your automotive no longer wants to start or stalls when starting without a reason. You want to disable the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Transporter 4 ? You are in the right place, we have made this content to support you see more clearly and solve your problems relating to this element. First, we will see how the immobiliser functions on your Volkswagen Transporter 4, then the different techniques to disable it.
How your immobiliser system functions on Volkswagen Transporter 4
Before explaining the different choices available to you, here is a short introduction to describe the aim and operation of the immobilizer in your Volkswagen Transporter 4. This electronic element came out 30 years ago and aims to prevent the theft of your Volkswagen Transporter 4. Actually, 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 Transporter 4 will go each time you place the key in the ignition, it controls that the code emitted by your key is actually the one expected by your immobilization box. It is only at this instant, that it will allow you to start. It is thanks to RFID technology (chip in the key) that this system will work.
The different alternatives to bypass the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Transporter 4
Enter the code to turn off the immobiliser
First methodology, your key no longer allows your Volkswagen Transporter 4 to start, you want to turn off the immobiliser of your Volkswagen Transporter 4, but first of all you should try this procedure to start it and take it to a garage examine that you can not perform a less significant operation to bring back the normal start of your vehicle. Actually, with your vehicle you should have a spare key (which you should try and which should start your Volkswagen Transporter 4), 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 vehicle 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, replicate the operation until you have entered the whole code. This should let you start your Volkswagen Transporter 4 without having to remove the immobiliser.
Fix your key at a key specialist or your car dealership
If even though a battery change, several attempts to enter the immobiliser code on your Volkswagen Transporter 4 still doesn’t work, it’s most likely your key that’s at issue. We can understand that you still want to bypass the immobiliser system from your Volkswagen Transporter 4. Actually, your transponder must have been weakened or must have fallen off your key. To fix this problem, only solution, go to a key specialist (also available on the internet) or, at your car dealership who can fix your Volkswagen Transporter 4 key. Determined by 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 dealership if you have no support and you want a new functional key, it will avoid you having to remove the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Transporter 4.
Manually remove your immobilizer
Although you may be attracted to bypass the immobilizer from your Volkswagen Transporter 4, this is not recommended at all for some reasons. First your Volkswagen Transporter 4 would be much more vulnerable to theft attempts. Actually, without an immobiliser box, simply doing “the wires” may be enough to start it. In addition to that, your insurance, in case of theft most likely won’t refund you if it finds out that the immobiliser on your Volkswagen Transporter 4 has been removed, bypassed or deactivated. This if you still want to do it, some websites online 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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