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348 Immobiliser snag

Nosevi

Nosevi

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It's finally happened - my 80s era immobiliser left me in the lurch........ Well it almost did, it took me 30 minutes to get the car started.

It's the type that you push into a little slot near the key on the steering column (although I've seen them on the centre console), there's a few quiet beeps then you use the key and Hey Presto! The car starts!

Or in this case the bloody thing doesn't. It's been threatening to do this for a few years, sometimes it takes a time or 2 to get it to work but this time it was more like a time or 200. Luckily I always carry a jump starter so battery running flat isn't an issue, at least not for the starter motor. I came very close to having a Basil Fawlty with the Mini type moment.

Anyway I'm fed up with it. Does anyone know how easy or hard it is to disconnect it entirely? Has anyone else done that?

She's insured for more than I'd get in a private sale anyway, more like what a dealer would get, so if that happens so be it.

It's this type of immobiliser:
 

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My last post from a thread a year ago, I clearly had a crystal ball :ROFLMAO:

Immobiliser fob 348 cira 94

Where can I get another fob like this ? Fitted when new 94 . I have a spare key but only one fob . Reverse image is identical . Ie no ref numbers or id marks .
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took immobilser out of my 358 and took alarm and immobiliser out of my 355.

fairly easy; depending where the box of tricks is. i traced the wires disconnected one at a time, making sure everything worked each time.

wires were typically just spliced into the main loom.

they cause nothing but trouble and if not needed for insurance (i checked and they weren’t) not worth it in my view
 
Cheers I'll have a look but the beep when I plug the fob in seems to come from the centre console down in the passenger footwell.
 
from memory main harness goes from the fuse box in the footwell, down the central tunnel to the two ecus/ enhgine. was where mines was located.
 
I've cleaned the contacts up on the fob and sprayed contact cleaner into the slot it goes into and testing it a bunch of times it seems to be working as advertised on every attempt. Kind of in 2 minds abut whether to remove it or just get that done later in the summer when she has her service. will give it some thought.
 
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