immobilizer problem

Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:51 pm

how can i by-pass my immobilizer? ive lost the wee key fob and need to get my car going?

Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:07 pm

anyone? I'm interested in this also, just to clear up exactly what it's all about

Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:19 pm

It's extremely easy, but depends entirely how and what it's connected to.
If it's connected as BMW intended, there's a two pin socket with a green wire to each pin hanging from the loom above the middle of the glovebox. The immobiliser should be plugged into this socket, so this plug is removed and relaced with a similar plug fitted with a short loop of green wire.
If the immobiliser is factory fitted, there should be a plug with loop tied to the loom nearby.

Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:26 pm

...or if it's like the toad one I removed 2 weeks ago from my car... scotchlocked(!!) in 3 places under the steering column and once by the coil... and they weren't even applied "properly".. if you can actually call scotchlocks "proper". Was a right mess and a while with the soldering iron to fix

Regards,

Ian

Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:38 pm

konfuzion wrote:...or if it's like the toad one I removed 2 weeks ago from my car... scotchlocked(!!) in 3 places under the steering column and once by the coil... and they weren't even applied "properly".. if you can actually call scotchlocks "proper". Was a right mess and a while with the soldering iron to fix

Regards,

Ian

Scotchlocks! I class that as good compared with some that I come across!!
Twisted together wires, insulated with a single wrap of cheap PVC tape is sadly not unusual.

Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:47 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:Scotchlocks! I class that as good compared with some that I come across!!
Twisted together wires, insulated with a single wrap of cheap PVC tape is sadly not unusual.

I'll hold my hands up and say I've done that in the past (years back when I was 17). It ultimately cost me a fire in my old Mk1 Fiesta, a re-loom job (not nicely split up into sections like the E30) and a bitch of a task to remove the foam the fire brigade sprayed everywhere in the engine bay.

Have long since learnt the error of my ways now.. hence the soldering iron to fix the mess that was under my dash (also included the remains of a Gemini alarm of some ilk).

Regards,

Ian