Renault Immobiliser- can you bypass it??

Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate CK, managed to produce the following words of wisdom

Your local immobiliser specialist should be able to cure this. There is a special box available that over-rides the immobiliser on some Meganes, but it'll cost you around £130 fitted. This is a hell of a lot cheaper than the proper Renault immobiliser circuit costs to replace.

I know people who've scrapped otherwise perfectly good Meganes because of immobiliser faults.

The part I require is currently on order form Renault, at a total cost of =A361. If that doesn't work , it'll be down to the keys at a cost of =A3120 each to replace and re-prog.

Take it there's no way to manually disarm the system then?

If there was, I would hope it wasn't public knowledge... ;)

The part I require is currently on order form Renault, at a total cost of £61. If that doesn't work , it'll be down to the keys at a cost of £120 each to replace and re-prog.

Take it there's no way to manually disarm the system then?

Err it would be abit pointless if you could bypass the immobilizer!!

Tim.

Escort ones can be done in under five minutes with a single link :-)

Chris

Ssssssssssh.

Tim. .

Tim.. ( snipped-for-privacy@spam.btinternet.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

If there was a switch marked "disarm immobiliser", you'd be shouting about the total lack of security.

But my Alfa has a way of starting the car in the event that the key is unable to transmit a signal to the immobiliser - it involves entering magic numbers into the system via repeated pressing on the accelerator pedal.

D A Stocks

David A Stocks ( snipped-for-privacy@channel4.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

"No, officer, I dunno who nicked it, but he must have been a bloody good tap-dancer"

Thanks for all those pearls of wisdom. I realise that you wouldn't want to be shouting about the ability to bypass the immobiliser, but on my old Rover you could enter a code by the number of turns of the key in the door lock and this would disarm the system. Just wondered if there was a similar thing on the Renault.

Circuit board replaced- everything now working as advertised!!

Phew!!

Out of interest, how much did it cost? My MIL has a megane with a similar problem - won't unlock, start etc. Renault have told her the computer need replacing - £500.