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4. (That's FOUR immobiliers)

I was going to head into the licensing center to get my certificate sorted out and put my new (rebuilt) Starion on the road.

Unfortunately, I need to sort out an immobiliser.

Fortunately, I have a simple, plug in ready-to-install unit just waiting to be installed. (Yes, I know that *sounds* against the rules, but it's actually legit. Once installed, it actually meets the requirements because a single screw holds it in... Go figure. Most Starion immobilisers connect on the loom from the keyswitch. )

Anyway, having solved all other showstoppers, Horn, Lights, Engine smoke etc. , I fit the immobiliser.

Works OK, so I go to remove the old one...

It's badly installed. Snip, snip, pull out one immobiliser. But I can still see wiring and crap, and about a dozen fuses up there, so start digging.

Find a small black box. More wires. More legacy harness.

I bypass (remove) the turbo timer. Snip, snip... Another immobiliser comes out. Obviously the previous owner just got a new one installed over the top of the old one.

OK, more spagetti comes out. I feel like a bolognaise under the steering wheel.

More snipping, more cutting.

Hmmm. What's that up there ???

Holy crap. It's *another* immobiliser.

At this point, I start ripping all this sh*t out. Some of this is wired back into the main harness.

A few carefull minutes (about an hour) and number 3 comes out.

There are still some unnaccounted for wires, but I can actually see up under the dash now. And the new immobilier (Number 4) works OK, and is installed, if not fully bolted into position yet.

The moral of this story?

There isn't one... I just can't beleive that anyone would keep installing immobilisers without removing the old ones.

Oh well. Does this set a new record?

I guess the inspection will now have to wait another week. It took me too long to remove the spagetti looms.

Regards
David

I know someone that took their's out with an angle grinder!

The question was "do we need this?" Bzzzzzzzzzzz! Thunk in the bin it went!

Trouble was nothing worked afterwards. LOL

Cripes!!!

rofl

I bet you the guys at the local car audio store have made their money on that car hehehehe.amazing how is it everone else decided to leave the other imobilizers in there?

Just imagine the weight you've saved from getting rid of it all! ;)

Ok what’s an immobilisers or more importantly what dose it do?

you dont have smelly hobo's that nick cars in Iceland? spoze not, any race that lives in boxes would die in the cold. :D

immobiliser = annoying little box under the dashboard that hobo's live in. or it stops ppl from starting the car, one of the two...

its a switch or toggle in some hidden part of the car that cuts a essential part of the cars running gear, fuel or ignition. So if a theif breaks in, they cant start the car.

Some people have been known to just rip out their ecu's :)

Ice Starion wrote:Ok what’s an immobilisers or more importantly what dose it do?

it's a diabolical/heavenly device (depending on wheather you have the remote) that stops anyone including the owner from driving the car, even if you have the key.

:D

Hehehehe
You should have taken photos of them all Dave!