Even in the world of modern technologies, car hijackers do not lower the hands and continue to rob cars or steal them entirely. Alarm can hide noise and attract attention than will undoubtedly scare the most of the thieves, but not all. Some of them can bypass your alarm, calmly sitting behind the wheel and hijacked the car. Having drove a couple of meters, the car suddenly gets up and stalls, without giving an attacker more to start the engine. This stop signal serves a special device called Immobilizer. They are equipped with almost all modern cars that were bought after 2009. Some car owners seek to disable such a useful system for various reasons. In this article, we will consider exactly how you can turn off the immobilizer and for what purposes.
Why disable immobilizer
Partly of the reasonable disabling of the immobilizer may be such situations:
- The driver wants to set the remote engine launch into the car. This is especially true in the winter or hot season when you want to include a stove or air conditioner in the car in advance.
- If the owner lost the keys of the immobilizer and understands that it will not be able to unlock it in case of triggering.
- When the immobilizer has been triggered by itself for a long time. To do this, it is better to contact the car service for solving the problem and eliminating the cause, but many prefer simply disable protection.
- There is a rating of hijacking on the brands of the car. If your car rating is zero, and the immobilizer itself delivers some inconvenience, it is quite possible and can do with one alarm.
If the immobilizer simply failed the control unit, it is better to solve the problem and repair it than to give up such an effective method to combat theft. The triggering of the immobilizer stops the car at all, and the criminal remains only to leave the vehicle and run.
How can I disable immobilizer
In addition to disconnecting this device in the car service, you can select some more traversions:
- You can disable the device only when you have at least one key or chip to unlock. The easiest and surest way is to remove the chip and gently climb it to the antenna of the immobilizer. Use the isolate or soldering iron. Be careful because the chip from the device is very fragile. So the immobilizer will always be unlocked, but your car will lose protection.
- If you have a built-in to the immobilizer itself, then it will not be disconnected by any work. Just keep the keychain not far from the antenna. In order, while you are in the car, the immobilizer will be disconnected. When you are outside the car, it is securely protected.
- Possible to buy an external clock of bypass. You can easily find it in specialized stores. Works on one principle with the built-in, which is described above.
- If we are talking about VAZ cars, it is worth saying separately that the complete shutdown occurs in the car service. Immobilizer in these cars often catches interference even from a cell phone, it works incorrectly and does not cope with its tasks.
Simply put, you need to open the key and take the chip, placing it next to the antenna. This is the fastest and easy way to maintain the immobilizer disconnected.
Do not forget that not all the models of the immobilizer can correctly react to the chip. The most reliable way is to contact the car service.