Thx for the reply, I am in awe of the knowledge circling this forum. However, as I look around, I get the feeling this immobilizer thing immobilizes more car owners then it does car thieves. I'll check with VCDS what my immobilizer does, although I would expect a fault code if something in the immobilizer is faulty. I would find it quite usefull, if all intervented engine starts by the immobilizer would show up as faults. Now there is no way of tracking these types of failures.
I'll also check if I am lucky enough to have an immo2. In that case I have the luxury of the emergency immobilzer bypass that will guarentee me not getting stranded as result of a failing immobilizer. The only thing is that I will need to retreive my SKC as somewhere in the line of previous owners it got lost, but that can be arranged with the nifty trick I found somewhere else on this forum.
To change the various parts, that are a factor in the immobilizer looks like a real pain to me and ample opportunity to get stuck. If it's the coil, I'll have to replace the cylinder as well, as it is an integral part of the coil. This would mean, I'll need a different key for the ignition, or is the cylinder addabtable to my old key?
So if I am not lucky enough to have immo2 I'll start looking for some tuning shop that can disable the unit altogether.
I'll let you know how this progresses.
Greetz, Mark.
I'll also check if I am lucky enough to have an immo2. In that case I have the luxury of the emergency immobilzer bypass that will guarentee me not getting stranded as result of a failing immobilizer. The only thing is that I will need to retreive my SKC as somewhere in the line of previous owners it got lost, but that can be arranged with the nifty trick I found somewhere else on this forum.
To change the various parts, that are a factor in the immobilizer looks like a real pain to me and ample opportunity to get stuck. If it's the coil, I'll have to replace the cylinder as well, as it is an integral part of the coil. This would mean, I'll need a different key for the ignition, or is the cylinder addabtable to my old key?
So if I am not lucky enough to have immo2 I'll start looking for some tuning shop that can disable the unit altogether.
I'll let you know how this progresses.
Greetz, Mark.
