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The answer is in the question. Immobiliser, its worked and the purpose is obvious. The reason only dealers and specialists can do it is if it was easy then everyone would be stealing your car. If its not operating then change the key fob battery and make sure the car battery is fully charged, some systems wont work below 10 volts or so.
thatcham alarms were only fitted by dealers as aftermarket items for 10%off insurance premiums discount although this discount was stopped soon after they found out that thatcham alarms were causing lots of trouble with cars being immobilised for no reason and found to be unfixable by VW dealers.....you only have the factory standard alarm,unless YOU have a certificate showing that one was fitted.(insurance companies ask this question so that if you have an accident and you said yes,they can kick your claim into touch.....believe me any excuse.....)
Unless you have a lot of VW specific diagnostic equipment - don't even try to do that. VW's are VERY FUSSY with their alarm systems and immobilizer; you even run into problems if you change the factory radio for an aftermarket, unless you buy the by-pass solenoid set up for your car with the radio.You might try to contact "Ron" at obd2tech.com and find out, if he can help you.
sometimes it depends on the type of allarm, if it is factory fitted they are a nightmare to do as most of the wireing for the allarm is intergrated into the loom, where as if it is an after marked alarm ( one fitted later on ) it shouldnt be to bad but still a long and complicated job to find all the wires and reconnect the originals bypassing the immobiliser/alarm if you are a complete novice this should not be attempted as you could immobilise the car completely, best thing for you to do is get an auto electrician to have a look at it for you, sorry its not much help
If im not mistaken,your car should have an alarm reset/override.Below the steering column,on the dash should be a slot where you put your remote transmitter to deactivate the alarm.If that works,you then need to have your remote checked and coded by a vw dealer.Good luck.
i had the same problem. After checking the window motor was not the problem i then checked the wiring harnes in the door. I beeped out all the connectors to make sure there were no broken wires and cleaned up all the contacts. The main connector looked quite corroded. I sprayed all the connectors with rust check and reassembled. The window is working fine now
My vw caravelle bus 2.6i -1996 model cant start- just cranking but not firing, cant hear the pump click as usual. It was just running fine, then switched off, when i got back all these started. kindly assist.
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